Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2007-02-18 17:23:43 +0000 \ Rick Rothstein: > Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg at ...> writes: > > > > > > > As to: > > > > > > > > > > "You can stack DRBD on top of md, md on top of DRBD is nonsense, > however". > > > > as I'm the author of that remark... > > > > I think it is nonsense, because it adds too much complexity. > > Thanks for explaining your remark. Now I understand the complexity problem. > > But can DRBD be used on top of an md_raid0 stripe over 48_disks in three > machines (Moving to a Clustered_GFS2/DRBD/MD_Raid0 based system from a PVFS > based solution using nightly backups, rsyncs, etc for protection)? out of curiosity: why do you need to move away from PVFS? what is your experience with it? > It doesn't seem to me that DRBD can do this (3 separate sets of metadata, etc); > but if it can; I'd appreciate advice on how to set things up. you currently cannot have more than two nodes active for the same drb device. but if you contact us directly, and explain more about what you actually do, I'm sure we can come up with something interessting. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.