[DRBD-user] DRBD and a high performance MySQL database

David davidu at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 14:19:59 CEST 2004

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, 18 Oct 2004 13:01:57 +0400, Eugene Crosser <crosser at rol.ru> wrote:

> > Is anyone running MySQL on DRBD in a high performance setup?
> 
> I can advice to configure underlying device as RAID 0, and rely on
> DRBD's redundancy (which is logically equivalent to RAID 1).  This way,
> you are quite likely to get *better* performance than RAID 5 without DRBD.

I don't want to cause a failover of a single system because a disk dies.

RAID-5 should provide us with good performance for reads.
RAID-10 can be explored if needed. 

-davidu



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