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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Lars Ellenberg
<lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> wrote:
> Did you consider DRBD?
>

I mentioned that as a "down the road" possibility in my last paragraph
- I just spelled it wrong :)

> An enhancement of this idea would be to implement the "TopRAID" with a full-server mirror using drdb and heartbeat. . .


No budget at the moment for a extra filer, nor for the hefty WAN needed.