-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 October 2003 16:32, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote:
> Hmm seems so, sorry! What is this DRBD? Think of it as network raid1 (mirroring), it's in portage. > > Heartbeat between the server and a nominated failover. Primary fails > > failover takes over the primaries IP via ARP clients are none the wiser. > > The failover (and primary) can still function as mail servers too. > > Heard of that and looked at their website, I think I will try this > hearbeat, looks good. Do you have some (good) experience with it -- does > it work as it should? Please remember, I plan to use it on a production > system... I used it in a production system (the 16 node "cluster") with 2 fileservers best part of 3 years ago! Around the time 2.4 was out, which made the installation of DRBD difficult, as the patches weren't fully upto date or tested. It all worked flawlessly for more than 6 months heavy use, shame the admin who actually set it up fscked up the failover part. Can't actually remember what happened to the primary, but I do remember that it took little more than a reboot to fix. I'll be setting up a proper system in the next few weeks, hopefully, earlier if I can swipe a working hard drive to get my pair of k6-2 350's I managed to salvage going. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kA/WInuLMrk7bIwRAr70AJwLFrDPEebJwUsGwVJWB15RoFKa2gCfU2Bd aA3FU+R/fSL75heIl0youcY= =zR5S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
