From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Fidelman Subject: Re: raid over ethernet Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:06:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4D449D5E.5010606@meetinghouse.net> References: <20110129133457.GB15784@mordor.angband.thangorodrim.de> <20110129210815.GC15784@mordor.angband.thangorodrim.de> <4D448CAF.6020409@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4D448CAF.6020409@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids John Robinson wrote: > Now that is interesting, to me at least. More as a thought experiment > for now, I was wondering how one would go about setting up a small > cluster of commodity servers (maybe 8 machines) running Xen (or > perhaps now KVM) VMs, such that if one (or potentially two) of the > machines died, the VMs could be picked up by the other machines in the > cluster, and only using locally-attached SATA/SAS discs in each machine. I do that now - albeit only on a 2-node cluster. DRBD works just fine using locally attached drives. -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra