[Dovecot] [OT] DRBD

[Eric Jon Rostetter]

Quoting Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd at firmix.at>:

> (Now) 25K mailboxes (with ~92GB data) on DRBD-6 (now old - the thing was
> built in early 2006) with ext{3,4} on it. As long as heartbeat/
> pacemaker/openais/whatever assures that it is mounted on at most one
> host, no problems whatsoever with the filesystem as such.

I'm doing a file server with similar setup, but with DRBD 8.2...
Primary/secondary, heartbeat, ext3 filesystems...

> Nowadays, DRBD-7+GFS or OCFS2 (and dovecot of course;-) are very
> probably worth exploring for new clusters - see other mails.

I'm doing dovecot off DRBD 8.3, RHCS, GFS, active-active...  Why would
you recommend DRBD 7 instead of 8?

> 	Bernd

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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