Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:56:58 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, babkin@users.sourceforge.net, Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> Subject: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network Message-ID: <1141739818.17213.1.camel@mayday.esat.net> In-Reply-To: <20060307134339.GE676@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <2833016.1141737440654.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net> <20060307134339.GE676@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 14:43 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:17:20AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > >From: Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> > > > > >I just saw this slashdotted article: > > >http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html > > > > > >Just to satisfy my curiosity, is it the sort of thing that can be implemented > > >as a GEOM layer? The idea is bloody clever but sounds like a bit of a hack > > >right now. > > > > Well, I've been running around with this kind of idea for > > around 10 years now. Never actually implemented it though. > > I can't quite believe that encryption at full disk speeds > > makes no noticeable CPU overhead. > > This sounds as nothing more than a mirror with one disk beeing a remote > file. > And this is not really a new idea - remote mirror has a long standing > tradition. > You can already configure these things with GEOM right now. That's geom_gate (for the record). -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer
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