Re: CLVM + DRBD dual primary? (was Re: replicated file system?)

2012-02-29 Thread Alan Johnson
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > However, being a hot copy means any > filesystem metadata would be in whatever state the failed node left > them, which may or may not be an acceptable risk in some situations. > Some sort of distributed fi

Re: CLVM + DRBD dual primary? (was Re: replicated file system?)

2012-02-29 Thread Michael ODonnell
> To my knowledge DBRD can only do mirroring. So no higher RAID > levels are supported. That's my understanding, too. So, in an Active/Standby situation (at least the ones in the configs we had rigged up) DRBD could provide you with a hot block-level copy on the Standby machine that you'd hope

Re: CLVM + DRBD dual primary? (was Re: replicated file system?)

2012-02-29 Thread David Miller
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Mark Komarinski > wrote: > >> As pointed out before, DRBD can do active/active, so long as the >> filesystem on top support it (GFS2 and OCFS2). The DRBD team even has >> documentation to get you started:

CLVM + DRBD dual primary? (was Re: replicated file system?)

2012-02-29 Thread Alan Johnson
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Mark Komarinski wrote: > As pointed out before, DRBD can do active/active, so long as the > filesystem on top support it (GFS2 and OCFS2). The DRBD team even has > documentation to get you started: > > http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ch-gfs.html > http://www.drbd

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 02/29/2012 10:22 AM, Kenny Lussier wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Michael ODonnell > mailto:michael.odonn...@comcast.net>> > wrote: > > > > > > (DRBD>LVM>iSCSI>Heartbeat) > > Heh. I suspect that will somehow look familiar to Mr. Lussier... ;-> > > He did indicate a

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-29 Thread Kenny Lussier
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > (DRBD>LVM>iSCSI>Heartbeat) > > Heh. I suspect that will somehow look familiar to Mr. Lussier... ;-> > > He did indicate a wish to have an Active/Active rig but I believe > that approach only allows

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > It was tricky to setup at the time, but they were just about > to launch a major release that was supposed to make everything trivial ... Aside: I don't think I've ever encountered a software product or project which wasn't claiming that.

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Ed Robbins
t was unreliable - if you knew more about pacemaker you might fare better. -Mark - Reply message - From: "Kenny Lussier" To: "GNHLUG" Subject: replicated file system? Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 2:44 pm Hi All, I am looking for new ideas on how to replicate file systems. I h

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Komarinski
r you might fare better. -Mark - Reply message - From: "Kenny Lussier" To: "GNHLUG" Subject: replicated file system? Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 2:44 pm Hi All, I am looking for new ideas on how to replicate file systems. I have a need for redundant ftp servers, which could

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
> (DRBD>LVM>iSCSI>Heartbeat) Heh. I suspect that will somehow look familiar to Mr. Lussier... ;-> He did indicate a wish to have an Active/Active rig but I believe that approach only allows Active/Standby, yes? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhl

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Alan Johnson
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > There *are* distributed filesystems -- btrfs has ceph, which has come a > long, > long way. Lustre and Gluster also come to mind. Caveat: I've not used > these, > I worked with the good folks at Gluster at my last job, fall of 2009. They

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > There *are* distributed filesystems -- btrfs has ceph, which has come a > long, > long way. Lustre and Gluster also come to mind. Caveat: I've not used > these, > but I know folks who have, and I believe they'd fit your bill. > > -Ken >

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Kenny Lussier wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking for new ideas on how to replicate file systems. I have a need > for redundant ftp servers, which could either be active/standby or > active/active, as there is a load balancer in front of them. Currently, we > period

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
There *are* distributed filesystems -- btrfs has ceph, which has come a long, long way. Lustre and Gluster also come to mind. Caveat: I've not used these, but I know folks who have, and I believe they'd fit your bill. -Ken On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:44:54 -0500 Kenny Lussier wrote Hi All, I am

replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Kenny Lussier
Hi All, I am looking for new ideas on how to replicate file systems. I have a need for redundant ftp servers, which could either be active/standby or active/active, as there is a load balancer in front of them. Currently, we periodically rsync the directory over to the standby system. What I would