On Aug 12 2007 13:35, Al Boldi wrote:
>Lars Ellenberg wrote:
>> 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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