[DRBD-user] Some info

Gandalf Corvotempesta gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 18:11:06 CEST 2017

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


2017-10-12 10:17 GMT+02:00 Robert Altnoeder <robert.altnoeder at linbit.com>:
> While it is not "bad", it limits the system to an active-passive cluster
> configuration, because all logical volumes must be active on the same node.
> The standard setup that we teach in our trainings, that we commonly
> install and use ourselves and that all of our automated provisioning
> software uses is storage -> LVM -> DRBD, or storage -> ZFS -> DRBD, as
> this allows the configuration of multiple independent resources, where
> each resource can be active on any of the nodes, thereby also allowing
> the creation of active-active clusters.

Ok, but I have to create just a simple NFS server, which advantage should I get
creating multiple resources ? I would be still forced to an
active-passive cluster, as
only one NFS server can be used at the same time



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