On Aug 12 2007 13:35, Al Boldi wrote:

Lars Ellenberg wrote:

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meanwhile, please, anyone interessted,
the drbd paper for LinuxConf Eu 2007 is finalized.
http://www.drbd.org/fileadmin/drbd/publications/
drbd8.linux-conf.eu.2007.pdf

but it does give a good overview about what DRBD actually is,
what exact problems it tries to solve,
and what developments to expect in the near future.

so you can make up your mind about
 "Do we need it?", and
 "Why DRBD? Why not NBD + MD-RAID?"

I may have made a mistake when asking for how it compares to NBD+MD.
Let me retry: what's the functional difference between
GFS2 on a DRBD .vs. GFS2 on a DAS SAN?

Now, shared remote block access should theoretically be handled, as does 
DRBD, by a block layer driver, but realistically it may be more appropriate 
to let it be handled by the combining end user, like OCFS or GFS.

	Jan
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