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Also, consider DRBD

Also, consider DRBD

Posted Jun 4, 2012 18:18 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Also, consider DRBD by andresfreund
Parent article: Clustering, development, and galactic conquest at PGCon 2012

Agreed, this is perfectly fine. I now suspect that my memory is lying to me: it tells me faintly that DRBD may transmit data in arbitrary order and does not do a complete transmit on fsync(), but I now suspect I'm thinking of some other distributed block device and just mixed it up with DRBD. If DRBD respects fsync(), then everything works.


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Also, consider DRBD

Posted Jun 4, 2012 18:25 UTC (Mon) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link]

I think you can configure it in a way not all required guarantees are met. They are not generally recommended as far as I remember though.
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Yep: http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/re-drbdconf.html check the docs for disk-barrier.

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