On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:47:30AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2013-05-15, at 5:50, Eitan Rosenfeld <eitan27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am working on improving the resiliency of a storage system using ext3. > > > > I will maintain two ext3 partitions of identical size on two different machines. > > Why not use e.g. DRBD or MD RAID1 with iSCSI targets on the remote nodes? Indeed, this sounds a lot more reliable. > > If each partition stores the same files, what are the sources of > > bit-level inconsistencies between the two partitions? Is there any > > nondeterminism? I'd worry about the use of the writer's PID (current->pid) in the block allocator. - z -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
