[DRBD-user] drbd8 and 80+ 1TB mirrors/cluster, can it be done?

Ben bench at silentmedia.com
Tue May 27 19:13:41 CEST 2008

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


On Mon, 26 May 2008, Tim Nufire wrote:

> My storage farm will be used to archive backup files which are written 
> once and rarely accessed so I don't think drive performance will be an 
> issue as long as the servers can handle the overhead of attaching 80+ 
> large disks.

Perhaps DRBD is more overhead than you need. If you're talking about large 
files that rarely change, why not just rsync it?



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