[DRBD-user] drbd and gfs

Alexander Lind malte at webstay.org
Wed Oct 25 13:33:47 CEST 2006

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


My portuguese is a little rusty (there does not seem to be an english 
version), but I see that he uses drbd 0.8. That is the the caveat I 
suppose, that it can be done with drbd 0.8.x, not 0.7.x, correct?

Do you have any idea of when a production-ready version of 0.8.x could 
be expected?

As far as the apps go, I was going to use the shared partitions for 
network shares (file storage and propagation etc), and also Courier 
Imapd. I don't forsee any problems with the files, and as far I have 
understood, Courier Imapd with its maildirs (instead of spools) should 
not have any problems either. Please correct me if you think I'm wrong :)

Thanks
Alec

Diego Julian Remolina wrote:
> Yes that is possible, depending on the application you want to run. 
> For example it may not be doable for e-mail unless the MTA you are 
> using knows how to share a mail spool. As long as your application can 
> work with two machines having access to the same files or folders then 
> you should be ok. An alternative to GFS is ocfs2 which is also a 
> clustered file system.  A guy from brazil wrote a howto for drbd and 
> ocfs2 (it may only be in portuguesse, I am not sure if he has an 
> english version):
>
> http://guialivre.governoeletronico.gov.br/seminario/index.php/DocumentacaoTecnologiasDRBDOCFS2#DRBD 
>
>
> IMPORTANT: At this point, drbd-0.8.X is not stable and should not be 
> used in production environments. Some people may already use it in 
> production, but it is not recommended. If you do it, you may be 
> risking too much.
>
> Diego
>
>
> Alexander Lind wrote:
>> Hello All
>>
>> I have read that you can achieve a shared storage solution by 
>> combining GFS and DRBD somehow.
>> The idea being making it so i can have a shared and mirrored 
>> partition on two separate machines connected via tcp/ip, that gives 
>> each machine full r/w access.
>> Is this possible? Is using GFS / DRBD the answer?  Are there better 
>> solutions?
>> Unfortunately I can't seem to find much info about this on the net, 
>> so I'm hoping someone here can help me out! :)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Alec
>>
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