On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:06:01AM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote: > Fury wrote: > > I've racked my brain on this one, so hopefully someone will be of some help. > > > > I'm trying to set up two servers which share a drive and do not have a > > Single Point of Failure. They are on a local network with each other. > > The best solution would be to have /dev/sda1 on one server mirrored > > with /dev/sda1 on the second server. > > ... > > A second solution was to use GFS/GNBD. I can export each drive to the > > other server, and do RAID 1 (on both servers) between the local > > /dev/sda1 and the remote gnbd device. I then format the raid device > > with GFS so both servers can mount it. > > > > Surprisingly, this last system works. Both systems can mount the > > drive and read-write to it. However, if either server in this > > configuration drops dead, the other server cannot deal with the dead > > gnbd device, and the raid device and mount point are no longer usable. > > I'm sure there are numerous other problems with this setup, also. > > > > So I'm looking for ideas. With two servers, how can I mirror a drive > > in real-time, and allow for failover? > > You might want to use something more like iSCSI + RAID: > http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ How is that different than GNBD + RAID? The issue isn't the network transport, it's recovery of a RAID on two nodes simultaneously. -- AJ Lewis Voice: 612-638-0500 Red Hat E-Mail: alewis@redhat.com One Main Street SE, Suite 209 Minneapolis, MN 55414 Current GPG fingerprint = D9F8 EDCE 4242 855F A03D 9B63 F50C 54A8 578C 8715 Grab the key at: http://people.redhat.com/alewis/gpg.html or one of the many keyservers out there...
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