[DRBD-user] Long downtime of two DRBD nodes

Xavier Mertens xavier at rootshell.be
Mon Apr 26 15:16:48 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Yep, I know... Link is 100% under our control.
We are just building disaster recovery platform between 2 data centers.
Thanks for your feedback.

Xavier
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0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that?

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Lars Ellenberg wrote:

> / 2004-04-26 13:25:29 +0200
> \ Xavier Mertens:
> > No network change, no vpn, no firewall.
> > >From the nodes point-of-view, they will be kept in the same VLAN. ;-)
>
> you are aware that DRBD is cleartext?
> SyncAll ==> complete disk image in clear text over the wire.
> this of course is no problem if it is just "crossover",
> or the link is competely in your physical control,
> or the data is public anyways.
>
> If there is only remotely "sensitive" data, and there only might be
> someone listening on the wire whom you do not completely trust,
> you should use some sort of encryption on the data link...
> DRBD won't do this for you.
>
> 	Lars Ellenberg
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