[DRBD-user] DRBD 0.7 and XFS

Curtis Tiffany curtis at reecemarketing.com
Fri Sep 10 17:32:20 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.


See:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.drbd/7078
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.drbd/7094

I'm not sure if there are any issues (performance or otherwise) with 
this still.  We decided to go with ext3 after running into the problems 
in those threads.


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. :)
> 
>  --> Jijo
> 



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