[CentOS] near-realtime file system replication

[William L. Maltby]

Previous reply: wrong key. Sorry.

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 12:01 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On 10/6/07, Frank Büttner <frank-buettner at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Akemi Yagi schrieb:
> > > On 10/6/07, Frank Büttner <frank-buettner at gmx.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> For GFS you dont't need SAN's. You can do it simly.
> > >> Or take DRBD, but for it you must compile an kernel module.
> > >> http://www.drbd.org/
> > >
> > > CentOS provides DRBD. See:
> > >
> > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Ha-Drbd
> 
> > But not at the latest version:(
> > See Bug# 0002339, so you have often trouble when an new kernel update is
> >  waiting at the door.
> 
> I believe they are up-to-date now.  My understanding is that there is
> some delay after a new kernel comes out, but it should not be more
> than a few days.  But we have to remember that the whole CentOS
> project is based on voluntary work by both CentOS team members and the
> community.

Would not the dkms facility, as described here

    http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules

ameliorate version problems? I'm not sure, but it seems to be useful
from my reading.

> 
> Akemi
> <snip>

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Bill