mirroring a loop device across an ssh connection

[Jefferson Ogata]

[not sure what's up with reply-to here; looks like my previous reply
went only to you]

On 2006-12-01 18:13, Jason wrote:
> Jefferson Ogata wrote:
>> On 2006-12-01 17:35, Jason wrote:
>>> So far, I've looked at Rex/sfs [1], pseudo-tty programming, and a little 
>>> of unix domain sockets.  I'm more familiar with network socket 
>>> programming, though.  My main holdup right now is my lack of familiarity 
>>> with openssh internals.  If someone could point to the right section of 
>>> the src tree, perhaps with a nudge towards how to do this securely, it 
>>> would greatly appreciated.
>> Take a look at drbd.
> 
> Thanks, I hadn't stumbled across that yet.  There is only one small 
> problem with it, which I failed to mention in my initial mail.  I can't 
> assume I have root access to the remote machine.  I might be able to get 
> an 'sudo losetup ...' approved, but most likely I'll need to mirror the 
> file descriptor of the file container over the ssh connection.
> 
> Currently, for proof of concept, I have root access on the server, but I 
> may not in the final implementation.

In that case, fuse is another option that might help, tho I'm not
certain as I haven't used it.

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