From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 13:59:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0471016A400 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:59:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30C913C46C for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:59:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix, from userid 58) id 1C97AC2EC; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 09:59:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on zoraida.natserv.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME autolearn=disabled version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Report: * 0.0 DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME Domain Keys: policy says domain signs some mails * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP Received: from 35st.simplicato.com (static-71-249-233-130.nycmny.east.verizon.net [71.249.233.130]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D87CC2E6; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 09:59:05 -0400 (EDT) References: <466411FC.5090203@zvala.cz> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: Tomas Zvala Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:59:04 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Geom Subject: Re: geom_gate and geom_mirror status? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:59:09 -0000 Tomas Zvala writes: > About a year ago I tried setting up similar solution with FBSD and > ggate/gmirror but even with generic kernel it wasn't stable enough for > production usage. Thanks much for the feedback. We have set it up in two test machines and it hung up with some basic testing. This was with 6.2 Release. Doesn't look very promissing so far. > having it rock solid. Another problem is the need to do full resync > after disconnect event (and with 900G disk it takes a looooong time even > on 1GBps connection) We are going to have 50GB to 200GB. Unlikely any more than that. > So our mailserver runs gentoo linux with drbd for > about 10 months now and works perfectly. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to port drbd to FreeBSD. > -> fs is not mounted and we just have a manual failover in the event of > master server failure) Take a look at ucarp. A co-worker is doing the testing of our high availability setup. He said that ucarp was pretty straight forward to setup.