[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: 2 questions



On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 02:35, Libor Van?k wrote:

>
> Please - can you send me some more information about network block
> devices? I absolutely doesn't know what it is and how to use it ;)

Network block devices are a way to mount a raw disk volume across a network.  
Think of it as RAID1 but over a network.  They are very useful as a HA 
solution.  There are a couple of them for Linux - the standard kernel has 
shipped with NBD for a long time. (I've never used NBD though).

Probabily the best thing is to point you towards the DRBD pages:
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/

-- 
Adrian Head

(Public Key available on request.)