On Aug 12 2007 09:39, david@lang.hm wrote:

now, I am not an expert on either option, but three are a couple things that I
would question about the DRDB+MD option

1. when the remote machine is down, how does MD deal with it for reads and
writes?

I suppose it kicks the drive and you'd have to re-add it by hand unless done by
a cronjob.

2. MD over local drive will alternate reads between mirrors (or so I've been
told), doing so over the network is wrong.

Certainly. In which case you set "write_mostly" (or even write_only, not sure
of its name) on the raid component that is nbd.

3. when writing, will MD wait for the network I/O to get the data saved on the
backup before returning from the syscall? or can it sync the data out lazily

Can't answer this one - ask Neil :)




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