From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 9 13:09:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2CA116A422 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 13:09:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael.schuh@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8328E43D6B for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 13:09:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael.schuh@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b2so291415nfe for ; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:09:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Qgu2uOdeCeremzeN6ynMH45cSLAJLIL0nkF9hkfk6XSb+PWtXPSaxPdi5KvzpteL2W0fdQO7uQIc4JiAwG6qYAEOHNq9bhh6x8HJ3atsUNlu3OSRkP7GzMJLW4OoUJ9lfd8cdD6b+7f2NJJSosivF865YjgxYMP1HoBOJ8VKeM0= Received: by 10.48.225.20 with SMTP id x20mr387774nfg; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:09:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.240.11 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 05:09:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1dbad3150512090509l2ab08e03k@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:09:13 +0100 From: Michael Schuh To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Questions about geom-gate and RAID1/10 and CARP X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:09:29 -0000 Hello, i have searched informations about geom-gate and RAID1 or Raid10 over TCP/IP. But nothing relevant found, so that i write the questions here. My opinion/scenario that i thinked out: i Have 2 Machines Host A and Host B, both Machines have 2 Networkinterfaces, one official and one private. The official interfaces getting bound with CARP for traffic, so that peoples think they connect's to one Machine. So that i get, for this case, a high-availibility-solution on CARP-Base. The private interfaces get to be used to derive my data from one Machine to the other Machine, and also spend the possibility to watch the other Mac= hine. To this point everything is clear for me, so let us go to the more complex part. In the description above i be suppressed to derive the shared-data for booth machines from one to another. My idea was to build an RAID1 or RAID10 over the Network by using geom-gate and vinum respective gvinum. Has anyone any experiences with geom-gate and doing RAID1 or RAID10 over TCP/IP? And has anyone a good solution in Production use? My Questions about these thema are: a) Is this generally possible with FreeBSD ? b)is this generally a good idea ? c)how must i setup the RAID? d)who must build the raid? Host A? Host B? or BOTH? e) can i use this way to become an HA-Solution? I have searched in the Web about these questions, but nothing found. Only things that i have found was Mirroring (local) and mode generals related to local work with geom. Thanks for help. regards Michael