On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 15:03 -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > > I've always been interested in data storage that can recover from > disaster. I designed a database filesystem that stores a table id > in every block, so that usable tables and directories can be recovered > regardless of what portion of the filesystem is wiped out (missing records, > of course). It has saved our customers butt several times ("No, we don't > know where the backup tapes have gone...we took them offsite like you said. > You didn't say anything about bringing them back."). Something along the lines of an object-based filesystem? Great minds think alike! I do a lot of work with Panasas www.panasas.com and Lustre www.clusterfs.com Not that familiar with ZFS - anyone care to comment? _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/