approximating freebsd gmirror in dragonflybsd

[Lars Schotte]

hehe, ten ci radi to iste :-)

On 27/07/14 23:49, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> I've done similar - streaming to a local disk.  There's no way with
> just Hammer to have it automatically fail over; you'll have to
> manually mark the working disk as the master and throw out the failed
> former master.  For something truly automatic, you'd have to go for
> hardware RAID.  There's some things possible with software RAID -
> vinum or ccd or LVM, but you're wandering into uncharted territory
> there.
>
> On the other hand, you can stream to multiple targets.  A big enough
> power surge will kill both disks.  Streaming to a mirrored disk
> doesn't give you immediate failover, but streaming to a different
> location in addition to streaming to a local disk will make it more
> likely your data survives.
>
> A @reboot command for hammer mirror-stream in cron will suffice to
> keep it working.