Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ted Unangst wrote: new link (same old code) http://gir.theapt.org/~tedu/nad.tgz Many thanks! Daniel

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-03-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On 2/2/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/2/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could start here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-techm=108663340015236w=2 i suppose the link would be more useful if you could get the code. if somebody is seriously interested (as

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/2/06, Ray Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: snip This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob, etc. And this would be much more efficient as well. snip

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ray Lai wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: snip This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob, etc. And this would be much more efficient as well. snip https://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=86187916316

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Tobias Ulmer
I have not played with it, but isn't it possible to use libevent (man event) to notify a userspace daemon that scps the changed files over to another server(s)? Just a thought. Tobias

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Bernhard Leiner
On 2/2/06, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is to configure a directory on a master server to copy the file that are change in it's monitor directory to one or multiple other server(s) in the same directory structure. Hi! Did you already had a look at Gamin/FAM?

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Mathieu Sauve-Frankel
Is there any centralized place for these sort of details? http://google.com/bsd -- Mathieu Sauve-Frankel

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Wednesday, February 1, Daniel Ouellet wrote: The idea is to configure a directory on a master server to copy the file that are change in it's monitor directory to one or multiple other server(s) in the same directory structure. nfs? You keep the master copy on the nfs server, and the

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:01:04AM -0700, Tobias Weingartner wrote: On Wednesday, February 1, Daniel Ouellet wrote: The idea is to configure a directory on a master server to copy the file that are change in it's monitor directory to one or multiple other server(s) in the same

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Holger Mauermann
Daniel Ouellet wrote: I would like to try to break my teeth on a small ( hopefully) project that is missing for me in the OpenBSD kernel. A way to have live mirror of pre determine directory, or may be if that's easier to implement, full partition(s). Do you know DRBD for Linux

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:44:54AM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Ray Lai wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: snip This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob, etc. And this would be much more efficient as well. snip

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On 2/2/06, Holger Mauermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Ouellet wrote: I would like to try to break my teeth on a small ( hopefully) project that is missing for me in the OpenBSD kernel. A way to have live mirror of pre determine directory, or may be if that's easier to implement,

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On 2/2/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could start here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-techm=108663340015236w=2 i suppose the link would be more useful if you could get the code. if somebody is seriously interested (as in, fixing it, not just using it), i can mail you a

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Holger Mauermann wrote: Do you know DRBD for Linux (www.drbd.org)? Something like this, together with CARP, would be great for highly available OpenBSD servers :-) I knew about the project and looked at it in the pass. I wanted something simpler I guess but definitely OpenBSD oriented. Plus

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
- Mirroring on multiple servers, more then 2. Man page said you need an even amount of devices, fair, but all I read look like indicate it would mirror a to b and that's it, even if a could be maid of multiples drives if you like, so two copy is the limit. I'm fairly certain you can run a

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ted Unangst wrote: you could start here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-techm=108663340015236w=2 Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! I will be reading this code for sure and see what come of it.

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Tobias Ulmer wrote: I have not played with it, but isn't it possible to use libevent (man event) to notify a userspace daemon that scps the changed files over to another server(s)? Many thanks for this one. It's already in the base, so may be a very good start. I love the suggestion. Thank

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Bernhard Leiner wrote: Did you already had a look at Gamin/FAM? http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/index.html This may be interesting for a start anyway. I will check how this works for ideas. Thanks for the suggestion.

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Tobias Weingartner wrote: nfs? You keep the master copy on the nfs server, and the slave copies on the clients... You export the portion that you want to be able to mount. It's all there... :) I was/am trying to stay away of nfs. Again, not that it is bad, just call me paranoid and that's

Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, I would like to try to break my teeth on a small ( hopefully) project that is missing for me in the OpenBSD kernel. A way to have live mirror of pre determine directory, or may be if that's easier to implement, full partition(s). The idea is to configure a directory on a master server

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-01 Thread Ray Lai
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: snip This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob, etc. And this would be much more efficient as well. snip https://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=86187916316