Re: Failsafe, shared SCSI, and linux's software RAID

Lars Marowsky-Bree <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:50:43 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.failsafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2002-07-09T13:35:05,
   Dan Freed <[email protected]> said:

> Does Failsafe and Linux's software RAID (specifically mirroring) work
> reliably together on shared SCSI disks?

No; Software RAID and Shared storage doesn't work together well at all, but
that isn't the fault of FailSafe.

Maybe you want to look at drbd instead; we are just doing some stress tests on
it to get it to be more stable on SMP systems.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <[email protected]>

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