On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:57:13 -0800, Mitch (WebCob) wrote: > Hi M > > > 1.: Use drdb to build a RAID1 across the two host's filesystems. If one > > host fails, the RAID runs in degraded mode but it runs - or does it > > crawl anyway because drdb is slow? > [Mitch says:] I've never used this, and a quick google doesn't give me > anything useful - what's the home page? > They have their website hidden at http://www.drbd.org/ ;-)
But if you want to build a failover cluster with drbd as the underlying network RAID1 layer, you will also want to look into Linux-HA. Linux-HA provides the heartbeat / failover logic typically used to manage drbd. http://www.linux-ha.org FYI: I don't think Redhat supports any of the above. (They have alternate solutions they prefer.) SUSE OTOH does support both Linux-HA and drbd on there distro. In particular with their SLES server releases linux-ha/drbd is the recommended HA cluster solution and they provide break/fix support. Since drbd requires kernel patches, I would definately look into a distro that has those built-in. The linux-ha project is funded / sponsored by IBM and SUSE and has thousands of production installs. FYI2: I don't know if SUSE SLES officially supports linux-ha/drbd/samba or not. Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
