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Re: disk mirroring
Yedidya Bar-david writes:
> There is a project that does something like 'Symmetrical NFS', i.e.
> two (more?) machines have identical sub-trees, every write to one
> of them is written to the other.
> Unfortunately, I can't recall it's name, and (after a few minutes
> of searching) didn't find it. I also don't know if it is in
> the standard 2.2 kernel (I thought it was, but can't find it in
> the docs).
> Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
Perhaps you're referring to the Coda Distributed File System
(http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu), which does what you mention and much
more. It's supported by Linux since 2.1.someting, as far as I
remember.
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