On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:17:53 -0600 (CST)
Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I have a small research project if someone is interested in taking it up.
I want to know of Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE and the other major distributions,
How many of them include DRBD by default or via some official channel.
CentOS packages DRBD in -extra.
http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/CentOS/5.2/extras/x86_64/RPMS/
Ubuntu has it, including the 8.04 LTS :
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=hardy&searchon=names&keyw...
Gentoo has it :
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-cluster/drbd
As others have already pointed out, it seems present in all if not all
major distributions used in any server role. Having it in Fedora/RHEL
would provide us with a very nice SAN-like capability (coupled with
iSCSI target support).
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what
capacity
and what do you think of it?
I've used the CentOS-extra package in master/slave replication as in :
http://www.drbd.org/home/mirroring/
It also supports master/master but I've never needed it and it's not
recommended to use it anyway.
I am seriously considering to use it at work to replicate about 2TB of data
(Xen VMs) accross a 4x1Gb/s aggregated link.
I have not been able to fault it yet and I will probably have more results
in the coming weeks.
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fdc