yoke kernel driver

[Michael Brennen]

Any comment on this as a means of maintaining up to date network mirrors?  
I had not heard of this before, but it sounds interesting in concept,
without knowing more about the machine load it introduces, etc.

   -- Michael


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   Yoke Linux Kernel Driver 0.3.6

   The Yoke driver provides transparant mirroring between disk
   partitions and other block devices (such as loop and nbd).  It
   differs from the kernel RAID0 facility in that it is a virtual device
   with no interface of its own.  To start mirroring one device to
   another requires no prior setup, just "yadd /dev/yd0
   yet_another_device" and go.  The yet_another_device will become
   another facet of the existing mirror and you can still read and write
   to it perfectly normally, with the difference that all changes will
   be seen and reflected in/from all the other mirror facets.
        
   Download: ftp://oboe.it.uc3m.es/pub/Programs/yoke-0.3.6.tgz 
   Homepage: http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/cgi-bin/cvs-yoke.cgi

   Changes 0.3.6: Man page! Clone utility.


Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)