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-Copyright (C) 2013-16 Thomas Schöbel-Theuer
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- is a block-level storage replication system for long distances / flaky
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- It runs as a Linux kernel module.
- The sysadmin interface is similar to DRBD
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-, but its internal engine is completely different from DRBD: it works with
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-Therefore, MARS can provide stronger 
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