[Linux-cluster] DRBD in Active-active mode

Christopher Hawkins chawkins at bplinux.com
Mon Aug 7 14:33:31 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 09:50 +0200, Neo Hill wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>  
>> I am still looking on information or documents regarding DRBD in 
>> active-active mode.
>>  
>> Does anyone could help me ?
>>  
>> Thanks a lot.

>Fairly certain this is not possible, unless something has changed recently.

>That is, you cannot use DRBD as adistributed concurrently writable mirror; 
>only one node can be the master of a DRBD device at a time.
>You can do this with GNBD + Cluster Mirroring, though.

>-- Lon

Lon, 
GNBD + Cluster Mirroring? Are you referring to clvm2, or is there another
package out there I haven't heard of?

Thanks,
Chris




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