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>Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:22:01 +0200
>From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [LinuxFailSafe] Resource types
>
>On 2002-03-28T03:19:06,
> [email protected] said:
>
>> Lastly, how do I set the 'virtual' IP of the cluster? I was going to do
>> this with the IP_address resource_type until I read it closely and saw
>> that it is for use failing over failed ethernet devices on the same
node.
>
>No, the IP_Address resource type will in fact do both; it will attempt a
local
>failover to another NIC if possible and then trigger a failover to another
>node.
>
>There is a reason why I have dropped the drbd resource from the
distribution;
>plainly, it doesn't work with the latest DRBD version. Fixing it should be
>"straightforward" (more or less), but hasn't been done yet.
I'm also running FailSafe without any shared storage, so I'd be interested
in using DRBD. Would it work with an older version of DRBD? If not, what
kinds of changes are needed?
What are the alternatives to DRBD? NFS, GFS, ...?
Regards,
Frank