Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Christopher Grello wrote: >> Anyone currently using DRBD with Lustre to sale across more then 2 boxes? > > I am experimenting with Lustre and DRBD, but I haven't quite nailed down the recipe yet. I'm curious what others are doing to layer them together. Assuming CentOS5 or RHEL5...it looks like there are two primary options: > > 1) Install the Lustre kernel from RPM and build DRBD as a kernel module against Lustre's kernel sources (kernel-lustre-source-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6.x86_64.rpm). > > 2) Patch Lustre and DRBD into your own kernel. > > Any advice? I would recommend you build lustre and DRBD from source, but your method should also work. I have been testing this on a 6 node cluster, I am going back and forth between lustre and gluster because of infiniband support. I am also playing with the best way to break things up. I.E. Is it better to use one large partition or split it up? So that each server has 2 partitions one for primary and one for mirror of the next server. -Nathan