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

[David J Dachtera]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
> 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)

Truly - IBM understands, but still has their blinders on.

D.J.D.