On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Jordan Russell wrote: > I haven't been able find any info on this subject: Is it somehow possible to > mirror a partition from the local machine to a remote machine in real time > using the md driver? According to the FAQ, "Software RAID works with any > block device in the Linux kernel." Is there some way to create a block > device which points to a block device on another machine? Or is this just a > Bad Idea to begin with? Any help would be appreciated. You *might* be able to do this with nbd, but I'm not certain: nbd does not work past 2GB last I checked (it claims to but doesn't...) IIRC nbd does not work for swapping. It may have similar issues with having RAID layered on top of it... HTH. -- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Manager, George Watson's College, Edinburgh Tel: +44 131 446 6070 Fax: +44 131 452 8594 Microsoft - because god hates us - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
