[DRBD-user] master/master over WAN with GFS

Mikel Jimenez mikel at irontec.com
Tue Jul 14 19:09:04 CEST 2009

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


Ok Thnaks for the answers!!

So... there is not a way to have to machines synchronized over WAN and 
the two machines with the filesystem mounted in RW ?

Thanks

Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:58:14PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>   
>> On 2009-07-06T20:16:26, Mikel Jimenez <mikel at irontec.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> The users in LAN of A would access to server A and the users in LAN of B 
>>> would access to server B.
>>> When I user access to the webmail or A looks the same that looks from B.
>>>
>>> We have a simetrical VPN between two sites.
>>>
>>> How does DRBD result    in this type of environment?
>>>
>>> I think that the best is "Protocol A" and Im looking for use DRBD-Proxy 
>>> for compression, or Openvpn + LZO.
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>>>       
>> The latency overhead - both DRBD and at the locking layer - will kill
>> the file system performance.
>>     
>
> appart from that, with dual-primary you _MUST_ replicate syncronously,
> thus: DRBD protocol C.
> for (hopefully) obvious reasons.
>
> I still have this idea of implementing a replication aware
> cluster file system locking layer mode, where lock _requests_ would be
> inserted into (or at least in order with) the replicated data stream, so
> it could be replicated asynchronously in theory.
>
> IFF it can be made to work, that is probably several manyears
> developement, though -- roughly estimated ;)
>
>   




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