[Discuss] Redundant array of inexpensive servers: clustering?

[Richard Pieri]

markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> OK, that's a pretty stupid thing to do. Who would do that? That's the

DRDB does precisely this.

> worse of both worlds. Not only are you backing up EVERY block, you aren't
> even preserving old data. Hell you aren't even excluding uninitialized
> disk blocks. So, even if you only have 500G on a 2TB drive used, you have
> to copy 2TB each time.

No. You should read up on DRBD because it's not what you think it is, 
nor does it work the way you think it does.

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Rich P.