Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-26 Thread Michael van Elst
tlaro...@polynum.com writes: >> There's also FreeBSD's HAST: >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-hast.html >This is quite interesting! And I'm happy to see that what I was >searching for was not totally stupid. It is a kind of "remote" RAID1 >with dissymmetry and fallback so it's approa

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-26 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 07:55:03AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:38:17AM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > > I have read the presentation of the features (I have a copy of a book on > > AFS that I need to read to), so it has features that I'm after but it > > lacks a

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-26 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 09:26:49AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Brett Lymn wrote: > >>I have in mind a simple block upon which one could imagine building > >>distributed data. > >> > > > >Have you looked at glusterfs? It sounds like you may be trying to > >implement somethi

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-26 Thread Stephen Borrill
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Brett Lymn wrote: I have in mind a simple block upon which one could imagine building distributed data. Have you looked at glusterfs? It sounds like you may be trying to implement something like that. There's also FreeBSD's HAST: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/dis

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-25 Thread Brett Lymn
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:38:17AM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > I have read the presentation of the features (I have a copy of a book on > AFS that I need to read to), so it has features that I'm after but it > lacks also one feature: the reality of disks and the need for > dissymmetry:

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-24 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:58:58PM +0100, U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: > > > On 24 June 2019 09:38:17 BST, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > >RAID1 puts an equal burden on both disks > > Is it really equal? It doesn't depend on implementation? > > >you will spend your time replacing disks pray

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-24 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
On 24 June 2019 09:38:17 BST, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: >RAID1 puts an equal burden on both disks Is it really equal? It doesn't depend on implementation? >you will spend your time replacing disks praying that they >not both die at the same moment. This is one argument for not mirroring SS

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-24 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 07:45:23AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 03:13:21PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > > Is there something like that existing? the idea being to combine > > as much as possible existing facilities and just to insert a simple > > client/server enc

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-24 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 07:45:23AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 03:13:21PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > > Is there something like that existing? the idea being to combine > > as much as possible existing facilities and just to insert a simple > > client/se

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-23 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 03:13:21PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > Is there something like that existing? the idea being to combine > as much as possible existing facilities and just to insert a simple > client/server encapsulating "disk" data at the right place (the > pseudo-device) to ma

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-23 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
I have been designing a system that does something a lot like this, to function as a multimedia asset management system. I would love to compare notes with you if you like. Do you want this to work on the block level? It sounds like you do. Things like this do exist, but you have to be very spe

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-22 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 04:36:05PM +0100, U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: > I have been designing a system that does something a lot like this, to > function as a multimedia asset management system. > > I would love to compare notes with you if you like. > > Do you want this to work on

"Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-22 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I don't know if the idea is stupid, but I wonder if there is a way to combine existing programs in order to associate in a RAID1 a local disk and a "remote" disk, i.e. a way to give the RAID1 software a pseudo-device as the secondary disk, write data being sent also to this remote disk whil