[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <740v4gF10osk3U3 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill
Gunshannon) writes:
 
> And, as I have said in the past, all of this assumes someone actually
> wants these features.  Likeit or not, the majority of systems owners
> don't.  I have personally looked into things like long-distance disk
> mirroring and it is really trivial to add to Unix.  Most of the needed
> code is already there.  But, guess what, I have yet to find anyone who
> actually sees enough value in it to ask for it.  There may actually be
> people doing it but because the interest is so low it doesn't even make
> it onto the radar. 

Well, some people might have successfully requested that from IBM.
Excerpt from AIX's smit tool:

                  Geographic Logical Volume Manager Utilities

Move cursor to desired item and press Enter.

  Geographically Mirrored Volume Groups
  Geographically Mirrored Logical Volumes
  Remote Physical Volume Clients
  Remote Physical Volume Servers


(I never tried it, though)