Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Anderson
Ashley Moran wrote: 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. You can already d

Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 7 March 2006 15:46, Dag-Erling Smørgrav a écrit : > Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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 l

Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: You can easily save the stream of updates as a redo log (well, that's the idea I've been running around with). Isn't that what the gjournal SoC thing was about? No, not exactly. The idea was to make a journal of a GEOM device I/O requests on a separate device in the

Re: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:33:37AM -0600 I heard the voice of Sergey Babkin, and lo! it spake thus: > > You can easily save the stream of updates as a redo log (well, > that's the idea I've been running around with). Isn't that what the gjournal SoC thing was about? -- Matthew Fuller (MF48

Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Warner Losh
From: Sergey Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:33:37 -0600 (CST) > >From: Bernd Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >From: Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >

Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Sergey Babkin
>From: Bernd Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >From: Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >I just saw this slashdotted article: >> >http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html >> >> Well, I've been running around with this kind of idea for >> around 10 years now. Never actually implemented i

Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Florent Thoumie
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >I just saw this slashdotted article: > > >http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html > > > > > >Just to satisfy my cur

Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:17:20AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote: > >From: Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >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

Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Sergey Babkin
>From: Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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 no