Hi. > AFAIK, on Lustre the data is stored on the shared block device, if one > wants to be able to fail over the service to another node. > This the bit I don't understand - shouldn't the Lustre nodes sync the data between themselves? If there is a shared storage device needed on some medium, what then the Lustre storage nodes actually do? I mean, what is the idea of Lustre being cluster system, if it requires a central shared storage device? > But the shared block device may be a distributed mirrored block device > (like DRBD) which mirrors each data block as it is written to its peer > node. In such a configuration the data is actually stored on both nodes in > the failover pair. My guess is that this is not a common configuration for > production use. > AFAIK such config could be achieved without Lustre at all - just with 2 severs acting as storage nodes. This of course would make an active-passive mode, and waste 50% of the resources. Regards. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20090121/f15435be/attachment.htm
