Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
For a premature filesystem with a lot more potential, I would go ceph.... Nick. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Tobias Verbeke <tobias.verbeke at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Noah, > > On 11/04/2011 06:41 PM, Noah Mehl wrote: > >> Yes, theoretically, you could use drbd as primary/secondary as backing for >> ZFS. But I would caution you against using ZFS on linux. THIS IS NOT >> MATURE, and the people who made it usable haven't worked on it since April. >> So, it doesn't look like it's actively supported. I would NEVER use this >> on a production system. Instead consider using OpenIndiana and ZFS send and >> receive instead. > > Many thanks for your insights. I saw some commit history at > > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs > > but must admit I already experienced some surprising behaviour, > so thanks again for sharing your assessment! > > Would ZFS send and receive be sufficient to take one system down > for maintenance while the other 'automagically' takes over serving > NFS or would that require some extra tools that come with OpenIndiana ? > > Best, > Tobias > >> On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Tobias Verbeke wrote: >> >>> Dear list, >>> >>> We currently set up a storage server, >>> using Ubuntu + ZFS kernel module and >>> serve filesystems using NFS. >>> >>> Would DRBD be a solution to mirror this >>> system and move towards a high-availability >>> setup for storage or would I need to >>> sacrifice ZFS ? >>> >>> Many thanks in advance for any pointer. >>> >>> Best, >>> Tobias >>> _______________________________________________ >>> drbd-user mailing list >>> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com >>> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >> >> >> Scanned for viruses and content by the Tranet Spam Sentinel service. >> _______________________________________________ >> drbd-user mailing list >> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com >> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >> > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >