[DRBD-user] DRBD 0.7 and XFS

Philipp Reisner philipp.reisner at linbit.com
Fri Sep 10 09:48:06 CEST 2004

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On Wednesday 08 September 2004 18:05, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently use DRBD 0.6.12 on a two-node HA system used primarily for a
> PostgreSQL database. The filesystem is ext3. We're moderately happy with
> it, but elsewhere we are more pleased with the performance of XFS. The
> only reason we don't use it on our HA cluster is DRBD 0.6.12 doesn't
> work with XFS.
>
> Since DRBD 0.7.x is already at 0.7.3 (++, if you include SVN), I wonder:
> is DRBD 0.7.3 ready for primetime use on production systems, in tandem
> with a Linux 2.4.x (2.4.27 or newer) kernel and the XFS filesystem? Does
> anyone use this combination already and is either happy or unhappy with
> the mix?
>
> Thank you very much for your time. :)
>

I know that XFS/DRBD works nice on Linux-2.6.x.
I do not know if XFS/DRBD works on Linux-2.4.x.
  => The chances are high, but I have not tested it.
     I do not know. 

If you try the XFS/DRBD/Linux-2.4.x combination, please
let us know!

-Philipp
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