[Gllug] MS & LSE ROFL!

[James Hawtin]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 06:52:38PM +0000, David Damerell wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 Nov 2009, Alain Williams wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:05:23PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> >A couple of simple questions:
> >* what SAN is fireproof ?
> 
> It's certainly not inherently unfeasible to have some very distributed
> storage. Quite common in the database world to have two machines on
> different sites either of which contains all the data.
> 

Most san high end sans will do replication, either sync for short
distances or async for long ones. IBM have a product for managing storage
called an SVC that can pipe data down to your remote site, it makes sure
write are "in order" so your data is always consistant.

James
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