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Re: [Xen-users] HA Xen on 2 servers!! No NFS, special hardware, DRBD or

To: Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] HA Xen on 2 servers!! No NFS, special hardware, DRBD or iSCSI...
From: Eric Windisch <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:36:22 -0400
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Javier Guerra wrote:
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 7:33 am, Eric Windisch wrote:
I have been thinking of testing NBD for a similar setup, instead of
AoE.  My understanding is that NBD natively supports raid-1 mirroring
with logic particularly useful for RAID-over-TCP.  That is, during a

i think you're mixing NBD and DRBD.


I don't think so. I wasn't previously aware of DRBD (but I'll certainly look into it now). I believe that NBD will do all that I described, at least according to: http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/, but possibly not as well (but again, I'll still need to look further into DRBD!)

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