[DRBD-user] drbd on localhost

Arnold Hendriks a.hendriks at b-lex.nl
Tue Apr 13 22:41:28 CEST 2010

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On 20:59, Lars Täuber wrote:
> Hallo Arnold,
>
> Arnold Hendriks<a.hendriks at b-lex.nl>  schrieb:
>    
>> On 20:59, Anatoly wrote:
>>      
>>> Holla everyone!
>>>
>>> How can I setup drbd between two local dosks on one node?
>>> I understand this is stupid idea. But can I do this? If yes, how?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Anatoly.
>>>
>>>        
>> By exporting the local disk as eg. an aoe device to a second node, and
>> running drbd on that second node.
>>
>> Had to do that once to test a drbd configuration with only one san
>> device, and a simple webserver that wouldn't be able to hold all the
>> disks. Unfortunately the aoe connection would often timeout when the
>> load was high, so I can't recommend doing it.
>>      
> did you find out the real reason?
>    
Unfortunately not...
> I'm running ggaoed ontop of lvm ontop of drbd just fine with a lot of servers.
>
> I get around 50-80 MB/sec with »hdparm -t« from all (6 right now) servers. I know it's not a real speed test but though.
>
> What aoe target did you use?
>    
vblade.




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