[DRBD-user] Resources for learning how to use DRBD as Primary/Primary?

Rodrigo Campos rodrigocc at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 01:41:50 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.


On 11/20/07, D. Dante Lorenso <dante at lorenso.com> wrote:
> Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> >  why would you need synchronous replication, why would rsync not do?
>
> Currently rsync does the job.  With synchronous replication, though, I'd
> be able to write a file locally then trigger a remote job to begin using
> that file immediately.  Rsync works but is slow and we are syncing such
> a large number of files that the sync consumes a great deal of resources
> on both the sending and receiving sides.  I've also been meaning to look
> into csync2.

Perhaps csync2+inotify could acelerate things, as explained here:
http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2007-March/006590.html

But i never prove it, so take it as where it comes from (somebody who
never do it ;)

Thanks,
Rodrigo



More information about the drbd-user mailing list