Re: clustered MD

From: Goldwyn Rodrigues
Date: Wed Jun 10 2015 - 10:00:04 EST




On 06/10/2015 03:00 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
David Lang has already responded: The idea is to use a RAID device
(currently only level 1 mirroring is supported) with multiple nodes of the
cluster.

Here is a description on how to use it:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=141935561418770&w=2

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how does this compare to DRBD?


No, it is not.

DRBD is for local devices synced over the network. Cluster-md is for shared devices such as SAN, so all syncs happen over the FC.
DRBD works for two nodes (until recently), cluster-md works for multiple nodes.

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Goldwyn
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