hi i have a machine w/ rh9xfs12 OOTB, 5 disks making a volume group, and a logical volume defined on the whole space. it will be a SMB and NFS file server.
i have a second machine, same h/w, same s/w, on which i want to mirror this lv throught the network. i tried several systems but choosed DRBD (which makes a new device on the lv device, mirrors it on the net, and lets you mkfs whatever on the new device) each machine has 3 NICs, one for service (eth0), two for mirroring (eth1 and eth2) actually enslaved in a bond0 interface. they are all accton en1207f/tx w/ tulip driver. my problem is that during network load traffic stops between the 2 machines and it looks like some nic just got frozen. drbd doesn't handle well such problems and i must manually restart things, but sync goes from beginning again... I started with standard distro drivers, then got D Becker's original ones, nothing changed (but i didn't get "NETDEV WATCHDOG transmit timeout" messages any longer) I tried with crossover cables, but had many errors on the nics (said ifconfig) so i put switches between with straight cables, had only very few errors, but still got blocked after a while I'd really have this working, i know i'm very close... i'd appreciate any advice on how to bond 2 machines with a _reliable_ network (in my case a 2x100 mbps aggregated link) the machines will handle 1 TB each, with one active and one backup (HA is not the main goal, just data redundancy) (ok so why not raid ? raid needs to fit in one single machine !!!) would coda or intermezzo be an interesting alternative (i first tried intermezzo, but i didn't get enthousiastic about it -- maybe i missed something ? -- and i'm not sure it is able to handle big or huge files or filesystems) tia -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
