[DRBD-user] DRBD and OCFS2

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Feb 26 12:25:04 CET 2007

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


/ 2007-02-26 11:55:38 +0100
\ Achim Stumpf:
> >No. DRBD is still two node only. DRBD+ can have a third.
> 
> I think there was a code drop from drbd+ to drbd:
> 
> * Asynchronous meta-data IO [ Code drop from the DRBD+ branch ]
> 
> You find that in the announcements:
> 
> http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-announce/2007-January/000050.html
> 
> Most probably one can do now asynchronous replication to a third node with drbd only.?!

complete misunderstanding of that commit.

what it does is: shorten (in some cases by orders of magnitude) the time
it takes to do drbd meta data io by not doing it sector-wise-synchronous.
no more, no less.

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