Etch amd64 + perc6/E RAID arrays + clustering (heartbeat)

Eric Rostetter rostetter at mail.utexas.edu
Thu Oct 9 21:19:02 CDT 2008


Quoting "admin at matphot.com" <admin at matphot.com>:

> I have read up on "heartbeat" (heartbeat-2) and it seems to do what I
> need as far as clustering servers goes, but what I can't find is a
> means to 'cluster' (or 'mirror') the contents of one RAID array to
> that of another under another server. Is this possible, or am I
> looking in the wrong place?

Either use a clustering filesystem like GFS, or use a mirroring network
block device driver like DRBD.

DRBD is usually used with heartbeat, so it fits your needs...

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

Go Longhorns!



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