On Tuesday, 30 July 2024, at 7:29 AM, Marco Feichtinger wrote: > So I am curious how does it work, how does one to set it up, so the arenas get mirrored automatically, and why do you use it instead of fs(3) mirror?
Adding to this ill-fated thread. Mirroring venti arenas was just a stillborn idea. The basic idea of venti arenas was to copy them to ROM devices as soon as the arena would not change anymore., ie. it is sealed. After this event there is no need to mirror anything. For sealed arenas , making copies available for recovering from disastrous disk failures is a trivial exercise. Of course, if you want to recover instantaniously from a failure in a non-sealed not-backuped arena, there might be a desire for such a mirror. Nobody cares about such events, alas. The main problem for the instantaneous availability of the backup is not the arena mirror, but the index file. I doubt that mirrorarenas was ever designed to be used for this purpose. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tca0eb0fbb2404e31-M7b02913b18cb5b0d18624eae Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
