From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Mamedov Subject: Re: Network based (iSCSI) RAID1 setup Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 14:03:23 +0500 Message-ID: <20170510140323.256edb95@natsu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Gionatan Danti Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, 10 May 2017 10:42:54 +0200 Gionatan Danti wrote: > even if in my preliminary tests this seems to work > reasonably well, do you feel that such solution can be used for > production workloads? Or something with a more specific focus, as DRBD, > remains the preferred solution? First thing that comes to mind, you should look into setting the remote device as --write-mostly, so that the local one is preferred for all reads (as long as it's up). But to be honest DRBD may indeed be a better solution for this use case, as it's built specifically with it in mind, and likely has all the various gotchas that might arise already thought about and handled properly. -- With respect, Roman