[DRBD-user] DRBD + ZFS

Nick Khamis symack at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 21:15:04 CET 2011

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
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