Am Dienstag, 8. September 2009 20:15:31 schrieb Christoph Lechner:
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> For the production setup I planned the Ethernet replication link and a
> serial null modem cable. I know the serial cable can really slow down a
> CRM based setup. But I'm going to pay the price because if I mess the
> firewall two independent Ethernet links still don't prevent a split-brain.

Do NOT use serail interconnects any more. No possiblilty for serial lines in 
openais any more. And they are definitely too slow for recent cluster managers.

> The filesystem that is mirrored via DRBD is still formatted with an
> OCFS2 fs. That's some legacy of a former setup. Now we have a working
> Heartbeat setup and only on one of the two machines DRBD is primary, the
> other one is secondary. So only one host has the file system mounted.
>
> The question was if you would recommend a change to ext3.

Just use one master and format the filesystem with ext3. In case of failover 
the DRBD of the other node becomes master and can mount the filesystem. All 
applications on the node can use this share.

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