[plug] [OTish] Geographically distributed RAID?

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:26, Onno Benschop wrote:
> 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 :)

A "business use" for the gaming router
(http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/01/0154253&tid=230&tid=7&tid=10) perhaps ;)

regards,

Chris