Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 2:16 pm, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:
> > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 1:31 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >> once.
> >
> > Yup.  Apparently with SAS, the controllers are far more likely to fail
> > than the drives.
>
> I think the actual idea (or one of them) is to have two machines
> connected to each drive, in a hot-standby configuration.  This has
> been done for a long time with parallel SCSI, where both machines have
> controllers on the bus.

Ah.  I'm used to projects doing that through ethernet instead, in various 
hand-rolled implementations.  A generic solution for staying in sync through 
the network would be nice.

A potentially interesting project might be hooking into the journaling stuff 
to update a network block device as data gets flushed out of the journal.  
It'd need some kind of heartbeat mechanism (if the network block device 
doesn't confirm receipt of the data within X seconds, don't hold up flushing 
the journal to the filesystem and moving on with life).  And some mechanism 
to get back in sync after getting out of sync, which could be done a number 
of ways.

I wonder if there's already something like this?  (Probably...)

> -Doug

Rob
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