approximating freebsd gmirror in dragonflybsd
Alex Hornung
alex at alexhornung.com
Mon Jul 28 23:52:15 PDT 2014
On 2014-07-28 17:05, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # justin at shiningsilence.com / 2014-07-27 17:49:38 -0400:
>> 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.
>
> based on info from alexh re device mapper[0,1], ccd(4) and vinum(8)
> i'd say i'm out of luck.
>
> [0]
> 18:52 <@alexh> mirror? it's a return-error shim.
> 18:52 <@alexh> dmirror has a basic skeleton and some notes on how to
> implement, but that's it
> 18:53 <@alexh> personally I don't think that sort of raid is the way
> to
> go; filesystems are a better place for that sort of
> thing
vinum and cc should work just fine. I'm not sure why you imply that I
said otherwise.
Cheers,
Alex
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