Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> >heartbeat is monitoring? are you sure? > > Without a doubt. > >you mean you use heartbeat 2, with drbd 0.6, > >on a red hat 7.3? > No, > heartbeat-0.4.9.2 gee, now, heartbeat 0.4.9 something, that is prehistoric. as is drbd 0.6.7, btw. and it definetely does not do *resource* monitoring. > To get failover to the other PostgreSQL box. just curious: which postgres version could that be? note, I think to be conservative is a virtue for an HA admin. but one can overdo things there :) > Thank you for that. I'll switch all our legacy drbd systems to > protocol C. Does this refer only to the network, or is the data on > the drbd device itself required to be different? I mean, can I just > change the protocal and restart, or do I need to do much more? no, that will do. > >I'd recommend to upgrade to drbd 8, > >and probably upgrade the rest of the system as well. > > > >unless you are locked in for some obscure reason. > >though, you should not be, this is the OSS world... > > Locked in by lack of time :-) We automate everything, and testing the > automation, effect of new PostgreSQL, apache, mod_perl, etc., is time > consuming. -- : commercial DRBD/HA support and consulting: sales at linbit.com : : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.