Hard disk high avalibity

[Peter Clapham]

> Looks like gsync could do this.
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> http://open.gandi.net/
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> Cheers, /N
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The issue with various syncs are that you need to be there to both 
perform the switch over following a failure and you also need to 
manually take care that split brain is avoided. This is less of an issue 
with a hard fail but a soft fail can be more problematic.

Using DRBD is a standard config with (the rightly corrected) pacemaker. 
This setup will take care of soft fails and auto failover for you if you 
configure it to use a quorum device. All details are available in the 
initial link

Good luck

Pete


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