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Re: disk replication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Mon Nov 11 11:55:50 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Nov 1996 08:23:20 PST."
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:53:30 -0500
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Patrick Lawrence writes:
>No, I don't want a mirror. I want it on multiple systems. I want
>replication (preferrably in "realtime" -- as the write goes to one
>machine, it goes to all of them that are replicating.) Just to explain
>why so people have a better understanding. I work for an ISP. We are
>growing like you wouldn't believe. So what I want to implement is
>something that will scale our servers well and give me the most uptime
>possible. I like NFS, but I don't want to rely on NFS. It provides a
>single point of failure. I want to eliminate that if possible. The best
>way to do that is with replication.
Um, this isn't much help at the moment, but the coda network filesystem
is being ported to Linux, and can do the kind of thing you want, if I
remember the docs correctly.
I'm not aware of any software currently available for Linux to do what
you are looking for.
michaelkjohnson
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