Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

[Mick Pollard <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:52:55 +1100
Crossfire <xfire@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction.
> 
> What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole 
> filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) 
> without STOMITH[1].
> 
> The scenario is I have two identical systems with local (software) 
> RAID1.  They will be tethered onto their internet feed via ethernet, and 
> can optionally be tethered to each other via Gig.
> 
Have you had a look at http://www.drbd.org/ ?
It basically mirrors a blockdevice over ethernet. 
A raid1 of sorts.

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Regards
Mick Pollard ( lunix )
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