Mike Lovell wrote: > has anyone in the group had much experience with drbd setups? i'm > working on a setup, which i am affectionately calling 'ghetto san,' to > use for some virtual machines and lab environments. i was planning on > doing a raid 10 on two boxes and then running drbd across the top of > them to provide some server level redundancy. when i was discussing this > plan with a co-worker, he suggested using a raid0 at the server level > and then relying on drbd for the redundancy. has anyone tried this or > have any thoughts on it? in theory it makes sense to me but part of me > is going 'ewwwww, raid0 on a server.' any thoughts? thx
I've run some fairly big disks (~200GB) using DRBD. I even lived through a few experiences which, if not for DRBD, would have caused massive failure. DRBD rocks and I would recommend it to everyone. To address your specific question, no I wouldn't blow off the RAID1. Disks fail, sometimes often. Recovering from a local disk failure is much easier than rebuilding an entire DRBD volume. I've done both. Disk is cheap. Man power is not. Corey
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