On Jul 23, 2014, at 4:54 AM, Miles Fidelman via illumos-discuss 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks like AVS, or maybe OHAC, is in the ballpark - but I can't seem to find 
> anything in the way of documentation, status, or anything - other than some 
> old email threads that indicate that both look pretty dead (circa 2011). 
> Sigh....

The SNDR portion of AVS does block-level sync and async replication. It is a 
dead
project because such architectures worked well when disks were 9GB, but suck 
most
heinously when disks are 4TB. I'll lump DRBD and HAST into that group too.

What you will find is that they are easy to setup, easy to fail over to the 
remote site,
and impractical to return to the original site. 

As Robert says, the only way to handle multi-site redundancy is to implement 
above 
(application) or below (ZFS). At Coraid, we have the technology to do the 
below: wide-area 
mirroring. Joyent's customers, and many cloud apps, tend to implement above. 
Being 
stuck in the middle is a bad place to be.
 -- richard



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