Thus spoke Tim:
> On 01-Jul-98 Thor Lancelot Simon spoke unto us all:
> #  Even if it worked, it wouldn't be worth using.  It's absolute idiocy --
> #  mirroring for the sake of being able to say you're mirroring.  It always
> #  reads from the first component of a mirror set, thus giving no performance
> #  benefit, and it doesn't handle errors *at all*, meaning that an error on
> #  either component will cause the halves of the mirror to become inconsistent,
> #  so that is very unlikely to provide redundancy, either.  It's Awful.  It
> #  should have been removed Long Ago.
> 
> I hate to say it, but AIX has a really nice software mirroring.  If the drive
> in question bites it, it does a few things:
> 
> <snip>

And then there's VMS - I can't say how many disks we've lost and
replaced without downtime. VMS shadowing is remarkably simple,
reliable, and integrates well with VMS's notion of clustering.

So, when do we get clustering for NetBSD? ;)

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