Re: Linux Buffer Cache Does Not Support Mirroring

Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Mon, 01 Nov 1999 02:09:10 -0700

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NWFS uses the Netware mirroring model which is different in semantic.
NWFS expects the cache to conrol mirroring and not a "spoofing driver".
THe file system knows mirroring is there are does some fancy reovery
because of this. NWFS mirroring is also able to run distributed, unlike
RAID in linux.....

Jeff

Peter Tonoli wrote:
>
> > > What is problem with the RAID drivers?
> >
> > Could I try a couple of guesses?
> [...]
> > Guess number 2:
> > ---------------
> > Someone just missed that Linux has support for mirroring. ;-)
>
> Or... RAID is incompatible with NWFS :)
>
> Peter
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