open source ha san

[er krishna]

Dear All,
 
I have written a article with complete how to which describes following things :
 
Making of open source HA SAN :
 
An article which describes and making of HA SAN with AoE, heartbeat and DRBD. I mean it contains a complete how to of integration of DRBD, heartbeat and AoE targets and initiators.
 
I want to keep it on the DRBD website. Can anybody help me to review it and putting it on DRBD site.
 
Thanks and Best regards,
Krishna
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[Lars Ellenberg]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:27:34AM +0530, er krishna wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I have written a article with complete how to which describes following
> things :
>
> Making of open source HA SAN :
>
> An article which describes and making of HA SAN with AoE, heartbeat and
> DRBD. I mean it contains a complete how to of integration of DRBD, heartbeat
> and AoE targets and initiators.
>
> I want to keep it on the DRBD website. Can anybody help me to review it and
> putting it on DRBD site.

Sure.
Feel free to post a link (preferred),
or post to the list (if not serveral megabytes),
or send with private mail.

Thanks,

--
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[er krishna]

Dear Lars,

Please find my how to of  HA SAN. I am attaching the how to & patches and the purpose is as follows:

1) The patch fixes a bug of AoE driver [ if on client side the target is dead, even it shows the files in mounted directory ]. If you dont apply this patch then you won't have this feature in AoE driver.

2) How to : My how to explains the integration of AoE + DRBD + Heartbeat. There are three nodes, one node is client & two nodes are servers. The client uses AoE service (exported block device) from the primary node and if the primary node fails, AoE service will be started on secondary node. The client won't feel any disturbance in case of failover.




Lars,

I have two seperate document regarding all available AoE targets ( their how to) ,  description,  integration (with DRBD & Heartbeat) and their complete design. If you would like to keep those documents also on DRBD site after your review, then please let me know.



Thanks & Best Regards,
Krishna

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:27:34AM +0530, er krishna wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I have written a article with complete how to which describes following
> things :
>
> Making of open source HA SAN :
>
> An article which describes and making of HA SAN with AoE, heartbeat and
> DRBD. I mean it contains a complete how to of integration of DRBD, heartbeat
> and AoE targets and initiators.
>
> I want to keep it on the DRBD website. Can anybody help me to review it and
> putting it on DRBD site.

Sure.
Feel free to post a link (preferred),
or post to the list (if not serveral megabytes),
or send with private mail.

Thanks,

--
: Lars Ellenberg
: LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability
: DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com

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[er krishna]

Dear Lars,

 

Please tell if you like the design and you are thinking to put it on your site. I have some detail design other documents also which I want to put on DRBD site.

 

Best Regards,

Krishna

 

 

 

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, er krishna <erkrishna@...> wrote:

Dear Lars,

Please find my how to of  HA SAN. I am attaching the how to & patches and the purpose is as follows:

1) The patch fixes a bug of AoE driver [ if on client side the target is dead, even it shows the files in mounted directory ]. If you dont apply this patch then you won't have this feature in AoE driver.

2) How to : My how to explains the integration of AoE + DRBD + Heartbeat. There are three nodes, one node is client & two nodes are servers. The client uses AoE service (exported block device) from the primary node and if the primary node fails, AoE service will be started on secondary node. The client won't feel any disturbance in case of failover.




Lars,

I have two seperate document regarding all available AoE targets ( their how to) ,  description,  integration (with DRBD & Heartbeat) and their complete design. If you would like to keep those documents also on DRBD site after your review, then please let me know.



Thanks & Best Regards,
Krishna

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:27:34AM +0530, er krishna wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I have written a article with complete how to which describes following
> things :
>
> Making of open source HA SAN :
>
> An article which describes and making of HA SAN with AoE, heartbeat and
> DRBD. I mean it contains a complete how to of integration of DRBD, heartbeat
> and AoE targets and initiators.
>
> I want to keep it on the DRBD website. Can anybody help me to review it and
> putting it on DRBD site.

Sure.
Feel free to post a link (preferred),
or post to the list (if not serveral megabytes),
or send with private mail.

Thanks,

--
: Lars Ellenberg
: LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability
: DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com

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[Philipp Reisner]

Am Montag, 16. November 2009 17:11:00 schrieb er krishna:
> Dear Lars,
>
> Please tell if you like the design and you are thinking to put it on your
> site. I have some detail design other documents also which I want to put on
> DRBD site.
>
> Best Regards,
> Krishna
>


Hi Krishna,

It is not only about the design, it is more about the content of your
papers. There are a number of errors in the "ha_san_raid_lvm_aoe.pdf"
document:

*) Never put meta data on a loop device. It might deadlock under
   memory pressure.
*) No need to create the file system on top of DRBD twice. Once
   on each node!!
*) I got the impression you advise to mount an ext3 fs on the
   secondary (ro). This has a severe cache coherency issue, and
   should not be advised to anyone.

The kernel patch simply drops all caches on the initiator side,
which is rude in a way.

Sorry, but I do not want to have this on .drbd.org as it is.

-Phil
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[er krishna]

Dear Philip,

Thanks a lot for reviewing and telling me about the errors. I will try to modify  according to your suggestion and let you know after this.

Best Regards,
Krishna

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...> wrote:

Am Montag, 16. November 2009 17:11:00 schrieb er krishna:

> Dear Lars,
>
> Please tell if you like the design and you are thinking to put it on your
> site. I have some detail design other documents also which I want to put on
> DRBD site.
>
> Best Regards,
> Krishna
>

Hi Krishna,

It is not only about the design, it is more about the content of your
papers. There are a number of errors in the "ha_san_raid_lvm_aoe.pdf"
document:

*) Never put meta data on a loop device. It might deadlock under
  memory pressure.
*) No need to create the file system on top of DRBD twice. Once
  on each node!!
*) I got the impression you advise to mount an ext3 fs on the
  secondary (ro). This has a severe cache coherency issue, and
  should not be advised to anyone.

The kernel patch simply drops all caches on the initiator side,
which is rude in a way.

Sorry, but I do not want to have this on .drbd.org as it is.

-Phil
--
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: LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability

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