This question probably deserves more analysis than any of us is capable of
but if "one-way replication" fulfills my application's needs, and perhaps
Vincent's, then is copying an LVM snapshot of an XFS filesystem to an XFS
partition on the "secondary" server a sufficient solution. Is it possible to
script a cron job which: (a) mounts a snapshot, (b) tar's/untars the
snapshot over using NFS/SMBmnt, (c) unmounts the snapshot. I haven't tried
it yet becuase (i)I'm having other problems I want to solve first, and (ii)
every time I get optimistic about its prospects, I see problems cropping up
with LVM snapshots of XFS volumes.
Keeping the faith,
Murthy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Lord [mailto:lord@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:53
> To: Vincent Bernat
> Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Intermezzo and XFS
>
>
> Vincent Bernat wrote:
>
> >OoO Vers la fin de l'aprhs-midi du vendredi 08 mars 2002, vers 16:27,
> >Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> disait:
> >
> >>You can build them at the same time I think, but you cannot use
> >>Intermezzo with XFS,
> >>that functionality is currently broken.
> >>
> >
> >Is it a limitation from XFS or is it a limitation from Intermezzo ?
> >Just to know where to ask ! :)
> >
> Well, I was referring to the running the Intermezzo cache in
> xfs - that
> requires extensions in the filesystem. Peter Braam started work on
> these at one point, but they have never been completed - so it is sort
> of on the Intermezzo end.
>
> Steve
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