On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:32:05PM +0800, Martin Aspeli wrote: > Florian Haas wrote: >> On 03/09/2010 06:07 AM, Martin Aspeli wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Let's say have a two-node cluster with DRBD and OCFS2, with a database >>> server that's supposed to be active on one node at a time, using the >>> OCFS2 partition for its data store. >> *cringe* Which database is this? > > Postgres. > > Why are you cringing? From my reading, I had gathered this was a pretty > common setup to support failover of Postgres without the luxury of a > SAN. Are you saying it's a bad idea?
PgSQL on top of DRBD is OK. PgSQL on top of OCFS2 is a disaster waiting to gnaw your leg off. -------------- Please forgive my ignorance, I seem to have missed the specifics about using OCFS2 on DRBD dual-primary but what are the main issues? How can you use PgSQL on dual-primary without OCFS2? Thanks Darren _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker
