>>> Anybody knows why omirr support isn't present in the kernel ?
>>> Will it be available at some time ?
>> That probably depends more on how quickly you write the support.
>> I can't as I don't have an omirr (whatever that is)...
> You've lost the plot somewhere Riley.
To misquote Lord Mountbatton of Burma, I didn't lose it as I never had
it in the first place - like I said, I'd never heard of omirr...
> omirr == "online fs mirroring", a sort of migrational raid-a-like
> whereby two filesystems could be kept in sync with one being the
> canonical version and the other (possibly remote, or slow) as a
> backup or similar.
> It went into the kernel at about 2.1.3x and out again at about 5x,
> where it became obvious that it was causing too many complications
> and was better left to userspace.
Ah...that makes sense - but did anybody bother writing the relevant
userland tools?
Best wishes from Riley.
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