On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 28/06/2010 20:55, Les Mikesell wrote:
I think he is looking for redundant, failover remote storage (i.e. mirrored copies from different iscsi hosts). Sort of like DRBD but with both copies remote. I think is should work but the timing might be tricky on retries vs. failure on the iscsi connections.
yes, thats what I run. We import 5 remote iscsi connections that come from 5 different hosts, and mdraid10 them locally on one machine - thats our 'storage' box. Each of the 5 machines doing the iscsi target exports run raid-0 themselves across 4 disks.
Part of my concern with such a setup is the whole data system goes down too if the storage box dies due to say blown PSU or motherboard problem. Doesn't it?