DRBD

by Philipp Reisner <philipp@linuxfreak.com>

What is it ?

Drbd is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid 1. Read more...

People

The device is written by me. Fortunately Luis Claudio, Fabio Olive Leite and Marcelo Tosatti from conectiva Linux are now looking after the issues involved building a HA cluster around drbd.

Documentation

general, configuration, drbdsetup, diploma thesis (german)

Implementation details

Roadmap

Download directory and changelog

Getting the latest source from CVS

Performance

Mailinglist hosted by

Links

Linux-HA Main high availability site.
ReiserFS Journaling file system.
ext3 (or here) Journaling file system.
XFS SGI's journaling file system.
JFS IBM's journaling file system.
LinLogFS A log-structured file system.
GFS HowTo shared file system.
mini HOWTO about RAID1+NBD+ RAID write-only patches somehow similar to drbd.
Linux Yoke driver The yoke driver is intended to do hot-swappable transparant binding of one linux block device to another.

Philipp Reisner Last modified: Wed Apr 26 10:57:19 CEST 2000