[DRBD-user] Two vice-versa services on two nodes/machines

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Sat Jul 29 22:15:32 CEST 2006

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On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:00:49PM +0200, Ondrej Jombik wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:27:08PM +0200, Ondrej Jombik wrote:
> >>- partition-A (service-A) will be master on machine1 and slave on machine2
> >>- partition-B (service-B) will be master on machine2 and slave on machine1
> >>Is this possible?
> >>Does someone have this in production?
> >Yes, just configure two different drbd resources.
> 
> Thank you for your answer. I thought that this is possible.
> Anyone having this in production is welcomed to tell us so.

I do.

> Also I'm interested in you personal opinion if you consider this
> solution as a clever/good one. I'm not the expert in the topic, thus it
> is rather difficult for me to think about any drawbacks or possible
> problems that this setup can bring.

You're distributing your load between two machines. That's a good thing
to do. An otherwise idle server will be put to good use instead of just
waiting for the other to fail.

I see no drawback, only benefits, assuming that there's no convoluted
dependency between them.

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lfr
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