Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:34:17AM -0600, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: > All, > > I'm interested in being able to share a file repository from 2 > geographically remote locations and was interested in setting up DRBD to > replicate between the 2 nodes. > > I'm using CentOS 5 for my platform. Does anyone have any documentation > or howtos on what I need to do to set something like this up? what is your understanding of "Pirmary/Primary"? do you want to use a cluster file system on top of that? or do you want to have each site active for *its set* of shares, and be the backup only for the respective other site's set? what does "geographically remote" mean in link latency and bandwidth? 30 km FO dedicated 1Gbps low latency feeling for all practical purposes almost like a lan? 3000 km 1Mbps flaky high latency bell wire? what is "a file repository"? what kind of files? why would you need synchronous replication, why would rsync not do? what is your expected storage size? what is your estimated average write rate? what is you estimated peek write rate? -- : commercial DRBD/HA support and consulting: sales at linbit.com : : 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.