[DRBD-user] MD Raid-0 over DRBD or DRBD over MD Raid-0

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 19:18:54 CET 2007

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> However, the OP was talking about running GFS on the DRBD device, and
> that only really makes sense if you're going dual active.

Rick, I missed that you wanted to do active-active.  If that is indeed
the case I'm afraid I see where Graham is coming from.

You could likely make it work by ensuring md was offline on one of the
nodes and online on the other anytime you did any maintenance to the
md setup.  I assume you don't have any way concocted to use a
hotspare, but you definitely could not do that sort of thing with this
setup.

Given that you're talking raid0 from a md perspective, I don't see a
lot maintenance anyway so that may be a very livable situation.

As to:

"You can stack DRBD on top of md, md on top of DRBD is nonsense, however".

I still don't know why that is true in a active-passive setup.  It
seems totally logical to me to stack md raid0 above drbd raid1 in a
active-passive setup, but that may be different thread.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
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