[DRBD-user] Two primaries setup over a Wan Network which broke up frequently...

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Feb 16 10:50:24 CET 2009

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:55:50AM +0100, Julien Reveillet wrote:
> I want the replication as synchronous as possible but as we're doing with a wan
> network...
> I know about the mysql replication which is true and is what we need but, we
> need to pay a very expensive licence to the developper for this so i wanted to
> find another cheaper solution. As i have no more choices, i will probably do
> with it.

you have to pay for a built-in feature of a GPL'd data base server?

I'm sure I am missing something here.

>         - Will protocol C cause many heavy lags on my production server ?
>         (i guess yes but...)
> 
> 
>     the replication link is 2 megabit/second,
>     which is roughly 200 kByte per second.
>     and the latency is what?  200 msec?
>     well, DRBD cannot magically improve those numbers.
>     I don't think that would be feasibly for a cluster file system.
>     and not at all for a data base on top of a cluster file system.
> 
> 
> I do not expect Drbd to be Harry Houdini... ;-) but i thought it can work if
> protocol A was useable with both primary nodes.

no. it is not. it won't.
and it's not even DRBD per se, that will make it unusable,
but the idea of using a cluster file system via a WAN link.


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