Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:59:20 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd? Message-ID: <48EAA658.5050506@ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <200810062000.26501.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <48E9E146.9040308@ispro.net.tr> <20081006152430.GA23608@icarus.home.lan> <48EA45D2.70502@ispro.net.tr> <200810062000.26501.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Mel wrote: > I think once you and R1soft step out of the "I need a block level device" > paradigm, you will see that modifying ggate with a "copy and fall through" > mode, as well as a mechanism to block writes to the local provider, when the > remote provider wants to write is the best solution all around and your best > bet to get support for it. > Right now, ggate does "intercept and redirect", but the concept of copy and > fall through is not that far away. Bringing the R1soft devs in contact with > the FreeBSD geom list and having them browse the sys/geom/ggate sources to > see how trivial it is to hook into filesystem operations would be the course > of action I'd recommend. > Would it be too much to ask if you can send this information to R1Soft and refer to the post I linked? I just dont think that I can be an efficient gateway of information here :) Thanks, Evren
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