Am Mo, den 19.04.2004 schrieb George Georgalis um 04:40: > Hi, > > You might like DRBD better than AFS, I think AFS is more suited, to > allow multiple servers to serve /usr/bin, ie static partitions. /var or > /home partitions need something different. > > Coda does sound good. ...just following these, not using them yet, I > think inter-mezzo is too young still, links: > > http://www.drbd.org/ > Drbd is a block device which is designed to build high availability > clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a > dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1.
As you already wrote - DRBD is a block device, not a filesystem. You have to run a filesystem (like reiserfs oder ext3) on top of it, just as you would have to with a "normal" block device like a SCSI RAID. Comparing DRBD to NFS or AFS, well, apples and oranges... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415 \ System Consulting Fax: +43 316 428896 \ Web Development
