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.
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity and what do you think of it?
-Mike
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Mike McGrath 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.
can't help on this, but
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity and what do you think of it?
I used it for many purposes ... I think it needs more attention during the configuration phase that how it could appear at a first look, but then it's quite stable and fast too
I also managed to use in the active/active mode, with gfs, and in that specific case it wasn't very reliable on heavy loads when it frequently ended hanging the gfs locker, but this was circa 1 year ago!
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@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.
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity and what do you think of it?
-Mike
Debian: Has it. http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=drbd
SuSE/openSuSE: Has it Find the following note in the drbd changelog for the src rpm: * Mon Jan 29 2007 - lmb@suse.de - Mark drbd as supported by Novell.
Ubuntu: Has it http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=drbd&searchon=names&suite...
CentOS does include them and I use them occasionally. The only specifc instance I can think of off hand was an HA mailfilter.
Ubuntu / Debian does not yet include them as far as I am aware.
It's not a bad option for replicating on non-SAN boxes.
It would be really nice to see it accepted upstream, probably see quite a bit more use.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@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.
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity and what do you think of it?
-Mike
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@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.
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity and what do you think of it?
-Mike
Debian: Has it. http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=drbd
SuSE/openSuSE: Has it Find the following note in the drbd changelog for the src rpm: * Mon Jan 29 2007 - lmb@suse.de - Mark drbd as supported by Novell.
Ubuntu: Has it http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=drbd&searchon=names&suite...
so what is the project?
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@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.
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity and what do you think of it?
-Mike
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Ramez Hanna wrote:
so what is the project?
Finding out if Fedora/RHEL is one of the few major distros without drbd.
-Mike
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@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. Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity and what do you think of it? -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
Mike McGrath wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Ramez Hanna wrote:
so what is the project?
Finding out if Fedora/RHEL is one of the few major distros without drbd.
It *IS*! :-(
Although it's not too hard to generate RPMs from the tarballs and use it...
I'd be happy to see it included in Fedora/RHEL! I guess the guys from Linbit (located here in Austria), wouldn't mind as well :-)
-of
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Oliver Falk wrote:
Mike McGrath wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Ramez Hanna wrote:
so what is the project?
Finding out if Fedora/RHEL is one of the few major distros without drbd.
It *IS*! :-(
Although it's not too hard to generate RPMs from the tarballs and use it...
I'd be happy to see it included in Fedora/RHEL! I guess the guys from Linbit (located here in Austria), wouldn't mind as well :-)
I've been talking with those guys a bit too. Seems the kernel module is the last thing blocking getting this in. I'm still trying to figure out what our options are here.
-Mike
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@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.
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity and what do you think of it?
Debian: Has it. http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=drbd
SuSE/openSuSE: Has it Find the following note in the drbd changelog for the src rpm: * Mon Jan 29 2007 - lmb@suse.de - Mark drbd as supported by Novell.
Ubuntu: Has it http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=drbd&searchon=names&suite...
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:17:53 -0600 (CST) Mike McGrath mmcgrath@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&keyword...
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.
-- fdc
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:16 PM, FD Cami francois.cami@free.fr wrote:
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).
From what I've seen so far, DRBD seems to require kernel modules that
aren't upstream. Anyone know the story on that? Getting the kernel modules upstream would make it much easier to get DRBD into Fedora.
On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Mike McGrath 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.
Also, of people on this list, how many of you use DRBD, in what capacity and what do you think of it?
I love it. I use it in both active/active and active/passive modes. Saves me from having to hook some of my systems up to our SAN.
Ryan
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