We have made the described changes to RVM and EXODUS.
We call the resulting systems RRVM (Remote RVM) and REX
(Remote EXODUS). 
Our systems have been completely implemented in user space, without any operating system modifications. For each transaction manager, we start a user-level remote memory server on a remote workstation. The purpose of this server is to accept synchronous write requests from the transaction manager and acknowledge them. In the case of a transaction manager crash, the remote memory server is responsible for providing the contents of the Log file it keeps in its main memory. At all times, data written by committed transactions either reside safely on the disk, or are stored in the main memory of at least two workstations (the local transaction manager, and the remote memory server).