[OpenAFS] drbd or nbd with openafs?

[Derek Atkins]

I presume the idea is to be able to failover to a second machine which
would take over the IP address of the first.  Fileserver state isn't
stored in /usr/afs/db, it's stored in core.  This includes all the RX
connection state, callback state, etc.  This information is not stored
on disk, so there is nothing to mirror.

-derek

Nathan Rawling <nrawling@firedrake.net> writes:

> Okay, it pains me to say this, but...
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> Couldn't you also mirror /usr/afs/db?
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> Nathan
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> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Derek Atkins wrote:
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> > Yes, it would successfully mirror the file system data, but not
> > necessarily the fileserver "state".  It would not allow for
> > easy fileserver failover.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Toens Bueker <toens.bueker@gmx.net> writes:
> >
> > > Hi *,
> > >
> > > would it be possible to use drbd
> > > (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/) or nbd
> > > (http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/) - block device
> > > mirroring over ip - on Linux servers in order to mirror
> > > vice-partitions for ha-configurations?
> > >
> > > Anybody doing this already? Any hints?
> > >
> > > by
> > > T=F6ns
> > > --
> > > There is no safe distance.
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