[Linux-cluster] How CMirror do replication between luns on diffrence storages

Nattapon Viroon droidbkk at gmail.com
Sun Mar 17 13:05:43 UTC 2013


So the cMirror  don't do data replication via network lan like drbd do.
Data replication  do across fibre.
So this make cMirror suppose to be better performance than drbd ?


On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:37 PM, emmanuel segura <emi2fast at gmail.com> wrote:

> Daemon providing device-mapper-based mirrors in a shared-storage cluster
>
> The cmirror package provides user-level tools for managing cluster
> mirroring. Cmirror is needed for LVM-based mirroring (RAID1) in a cluster
> environment
>
> I if rember well, the cmirror daemon is needed when you have a share
> storage and you use a lvm mirror
>
> 2013/3/17 Nattapon Viroon <droidbkk at gmail.com>
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I try setup data replication between storages and use gfs on top.
>> Im not sure which solutions is good to go between clvm+cMirror+gfs or
>> DRBD+gfs
>>
>>  DRBD is do raid1 across network that require extra network channel to do
>> replication
>>
>> But I don't know how actually cMirror work to replicate data between luns.
>> Do the cMirror require separate network channel to do data replication ?
>> or cMirror do replicate via fibre channel ?
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
>> Nattapon
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