[Pacemaker] drbd diskless -> failover to other node

[Florian Haas]

On 2010-08-30 11:06, jimbob palmer wrote:
>>> Are you saying that if a server loses its disk, it will transparently
>>> write to the secondary server without any need to failover at all?
>>
>> Yes. As long as it still has a network connection to the peer, of course.
>>
>>> WOW. I never knew DRBD did this. This is a _fantastic_ feature :)
>>
>> Well, that's what diskless mode is really all about.
>> http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-handling-disk-errors.html
> 
> A final question: does DRBD switch to Protocol C in diskless mode, or
> does it stay with the configured Protocol? 

It doesn't switch.

> If it doesn't switch, can it be configured to?

Nope. I mean arguably could kludge something to get something close to
this, but chances are you really don't want to do that.

Florian

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