Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 08:29:54 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtime Filesystem Replication Message-ID: <3EB8FC42.9030000@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030507013130.48812aa0.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0305061221200.47177-100000@server1.ultratrends.com> <3EB807B9.4070603@potentialtech.com> <20030507013130.48812aa0.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca>
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Chris Pressey wrote: > On Tue, 06 May 2003 15:06:33 -0400 > Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > > >>YOU wrote: >> >>>Thanks so far to the suggestions including rsync and unison. Both >>>appear to be triggered upon a command line or user typed command. Is >>>someone using a system that tracks the mtimes for files and updates >>>without prompt? >> >>Are you sure you really need _realtime_? That's a pretty tall order, >>and I don't know of anything that can provide it. > > Purely out of curiousity, would it even be technically possible? Would > kevents be the thing to handle something like this, or would they be too > low-level? Not 100% sure. It would be an interesting research project if I could find time to try it out. I have some theories as to how to make it work, and I suspect that it's possible. I worry that it's not practical, however, that it will be too slow to actually use. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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