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

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 now.

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 GEOM layer? The

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 curiosity, is it the

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 it though. I can't

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 now.

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] I just saw this slashdotted article: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603

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

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

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 layer? The