Re: Is Ceph a provider of block device too ?

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On 11/21/2013 12:13 PM, John-Paul Robinson wrote:
> Is this statement accurate?
> 
> As I understand DRBD, you can replicate online block devices reliably,
> but with Ceph the replication for RBD images requires that the file
> system be offline.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification,

Basic DRBD is RAID-1 over network. You don't "replicate" the filesystem,
you have it backed by 2 devices one of which happens to be on another
computer.

Less basic DRBD allows you to mount your gluster fs on both hosts or add
another DRBD on top to mirror your filesystem to a 3rd node.

HTH
-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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