[DRBD-user] existing volume

Bart Coninckx bart.coninckx at telenet.be
Thu Aug 5 10:08:32 CEST 2010

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


On Thursday 05 August 2010 09:42:13 Rohit Upadhyay wrote:
> What is the advantage of DRBD's own protocol over iSCSI?
> Given the availability of iSCSI initiator & target, what was the reason to
> go to the length of developing own protocol?
> 
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Mike Lovell <mike at dev-zero.net> wrote:
> >  Rohit Upadhyay wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Mike for answering. Another query:
> >
> > How is transport between 2 machines handled? What protocol is used in
> > place of iSCSI / NBD?
> > Can it work without DRBD installed on other side?
> >
> > the transport is TCP. the protocol is its own protocol. it needs drbd
> > installed and configured on the remote side.
> >
> > mike
> 

Less overhead.

B.



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