[plug] [OTish] Geographically distributed RAID?

[Onno Benschop]

Chris Caston wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Is it possibly to have a RAID array with the disks in different physical
>locations? Say a RAID 1 set with one drive in Perth and the other in
>Joondalup?
>
>No application in mind.
>
Well, given that you can mount an ssh connection, I would suspect that 
you could run software raid on the ssh mounted tree, thus having 
geographically distributed RAID.

Of course, your latency might be a problem :)

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