[ale] Extended or Global Clustering

[James P. Kinney III]

Greg,

I may be mixing technologies in my mind (turkey poisoning is setting
in...) but I'm pretty sure that the GFS as offered by RH uses DRBD as
the low-level process.

If not, well, DRBD is a seriously cool technology!!

On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 10:43 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007 10:08 PM, James P. Kinney III
> <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> > also take a look at DRBD - Distributed Remote Block Device. It's a core
> > component of the Global Filesystem that RedHat purchased and promptly
> > opensourced (after some code clean up for license reasons).
> 
> James,
> 
> Are you saying that GFS (purchased from Sistina) now officially
> supports drbd backends.
> 
> I knew it was conceptually possible, but I thought that pairing was
> very bleeding edge?  Nice to know that Redhat is now working with the
> drbd team.  (SuSE has for a couple years in their enterprise product.)
> 
> Greg
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