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Re: Using DRDB and disks for tapes.

2005-09-26 10:33:07
Subject: Re: Using DRDB and disks for tapes.
From: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
To: Owen Williams <williams AT dmu.ac DOT uk>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:59:39 -0600
Owen Williams wrote:

A colleague and I are thinking of getting two large RAID arrays
keeping one in his machine room and one in mine in different
buildings.  Then split them in two with DRDB running in pairs on the
four partitions.

Unless you have 100Bt or better between your machine rooms, you may find that this is quite slow. I'd do some replication benchmarks before doing a full implementation. ;)

Graeme

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