On Aug 12 2007 13:35, Al Boldi wrote: >Lars Ellenberg wrote: >> meanwhile, please, anyone interessted, >> the drbd paper for LinuxConf Eu 2007 is finalized. >> http://www.drbd.org/fileadmin/drbd/publications/ >> drbd8.linux-conf.eu.2007.pdf >> >> but it does give a good overview about what DRBD actually is, >> what exact problems it tries to solve, >> and what developments to expect in the near future. >> >> so you can make up your mind about >> "Do we need it?", and >> "Why DRBD? Why not NBD + MD-RAID?" I may have made a mistake when asking for how it compares to NBD+MD. Let me retry: what's the functional difference between GFS2 on a DRBD .vs. GFS2 on a DAS SAN? >Now, shared remote block access should theoretically be handled, as does >DRBD, by a block layer driver, but realistically it may be more appropriate >to let it be handled by the combining end user, like OCFS or GFS. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
