You pay a price writes, but with write caching enabled on your
(battery-backed, of course) RAID card and using gigabit, it's easy to
get >100MB/s throughput. It's also easy to replicate different block
devices over separate network links, if that becomes your bottleneck.
On May 18, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Ben wrote:
If you're just looking for a way to have high availability and
you're ok
being tied to linux, DRBD is a good way to go. It keeps things
simple in
that all changes are replicated, it won't say an fsync is finished
until
it's finished on the remote host too,
Oh, so that's how it works. I assume performance must be, huh, not
stellar?
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