[ClusterLabs] design question to DRBD

[Lentes, Bernd]

----- On Jun 22, 2016, at 11:48 PM, Dimitri Maziuk dmaziuk at bmrb.wisc.edu wrote:

> On 06/22/2016 04:29 PM, Klaus Wenninger wrote:
>> On 06/22/2016 11:17 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> 
>>> I'm thinking about active/active. But i think active/passive with a
>>> non-cluster fs is less complicated.
>> But you will need something to control DRBD - especially in the
>> active/passive-case.
>> And the services/IPs would probably have to be pulled to the active side.
> 
> It looks like with modern linux kernels you don't have to
> re-bind()/listen() anymore when an IP address is added. So you can start
> services bound to '*' from init and have pacemaker only manage the
> shared ip address.
> 
> But yes, with active/passive DRBD you need something to control DRBD and
> mount DRBD FS and then start services that depend on DRBD FS.
> 
> Active-active should let you have your filesystem mounted on both nodes
> at once and have things running from init. I never tried it myself so I
> don't know which of them would be "less complicated".
> 
> --

What i mean with "less complicated" is that i prefer to have everything
managed by pacemaker and not some stuff by pacemaker and some stuff by init.
This is more overseeable.


Bernd
 

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