Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi Clive, thanks for your reply. Am Mo, den 31.10.2005 schrieb Clive Eisen um 16:17: > > > >we plan to use DRBD and heartbeat to cluster an Informix DB and we would > >like to use raw devices to store the data on. > > > >Has anybody ever tried using Linux raw devices on top of DRBD or could > >one of the technical experts around tell me if this is possible at all? > > > > > > > I have done it as a demo, not in production. > > It works fine with raw and heartbeat although depending on your distro > you may have to hack the 'raw' script to actually work > > http://groups.google.co.uk/group/novell.support.suse.linux.professional/browse_thread/thread/62b8da97916987dd/b11209c7c384fa9e?lnk=st&q=%22clive+eisen%22+raw&rnum=4&hl=en#b11209c7c384fa9e Is it necessary to have the raw devices be managed by heartbeat? I was thinking about binding the raw devices statically to the drbd major/minor numbers. > Later informix versions open the chunks as 'raw' without you having to > go through these hoops, and will also use KAIO if possible But does that make any difference in practice? At least for me, the "drbd administrator"? regards, Christof