Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:08:53 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Kim and Chet Golding <golding@halcyon.com> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: md - memory disk wishlist ? Message-ID: <23780.943913333@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:19 PST." <Pine.GSO.4.20.9911291345060.23725-100000@king.halcyon.com>
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In message <Pine.GSO.4.20.9911291345060.23725-100000@king.halcyon.com>, Kim and Chet Golding writes: > >Great Question! > >1. Mirror or Raid mode would be very cool. For a memory disk ? >2. A cluster hook of some sort would be super if you had multiple systems >and could config/treat a memory disk as a single unit and let the unit >take care of passing updates to another system. (Maybe on boot this >could reload itself from another systems md based on a switch-file or >test-condition script in /etc... or after network was up.. failing over >to something in /etc/defaults if network is unreachable..) Uhm. This is a network filesystem, isn't it ? >3. Snap effect... Something like a .bak but with versions say up to 16 >working in a lifo manner. Would be good for some situations. Giving you >a version cache device for sql tables or floppy build versions. Hmm, that could be made rather simply I think. It's on the list. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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