Re: Data replication through disk replication

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Ben <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>, Thomas Lopatic <thomas(at)lopatic(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Data replication through disk replication
Date: 2007-05-19 17:07:20
Message-ID: 464F2EC8.6040609@commandprompt.com
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Ben wrote:
>> If you're just looking for a way to have high availability and you're ok
>> being tied to linux, DRBD is a good way to go. It keeps things simple in
>> that all changes are replicated, it won't say an fsync is finished until
>> it's finished on the remote host too,
>
> Oh, so that's how it works. I assume performance must be, huh, not stellar?

It depends... if the machines are equal, and you have bonded two
gigabits together....

Joshua D. Drake

>

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