[DRBD-user] master/master over WAN with GFS

Mikel Jimenez mikel at irontec.com
Tue Jul 14 19:39:52 CEST 2009

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


Ok... so in real world it is not possible

GFS + DRBD only in LAN

Brian R. Hellman wrote:
> *lose their emails... o key got stuck.
>
> Brian R. Hellman wrote:
>   
>> I could be done, but again like Lars said, performance will be very bad
>> (unusable) and the likelihood/risk of split brain high.  As soon as your
>> Internet providers link goes down, and it will, you'll have two
>> different data sets without a way to merge them. Then you get the fun
>> chore of deciding who gets to lose* their emails :)
>>
>>
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>> Mikel Jimenez wrote:
>>     
>>> Ok Thnaks for the answers!!
>>>
>>> So... there is not a way to have to machines synchronized over WAN and
>>> the two machines with the filesystem mounted in RW ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Lars Ellenberg wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:58:14PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>         
>>>>> On 2009-07-06T20:16:26, Mikel Jimenez <mikel at irontec.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>    
>>>>>           
>>>>>> The users in LAN of A would access to server A and the users in LAN
>>>>>> of B would access to server B.
>>>>>> When I user access to the webmail or A looks the same that looks
>>>>>> from B.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have a simetrical VPN between two sites.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How does DRBD result    in this type of environment?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think that the best is "Protocol A" and Im looking for use
>>>>>> DRBD-Proxy for compression, or Openvpn + LZO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Opinions?
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>             
>>>>> The latency overhead - both DRBD and at the locking layer - will kill
>>>>> the file system performance.
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> appart from that, with dual-primary you _MUST_ replicate syncronously,
>>>> thus: DRBD protocol C.
>>>> for (hopefully) obvious reasons.
>>>>
>>>> I still have this idea of implementing a replication aware
>>>> cluster file system locking layer mode, where lock _requests_ would be
>>>> inserted into (or at least in order with) the replicated data stream, so
>>>> it could be replicated asynchronously in theory.
>>>>
>>>> IFF it can be made to work, that is probably several manyears
>>>> developement, though -- roughly estimated ;)
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
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