drbd (was nmbd)

[Harald Milz]

In article <38260292.EC5CA973@bell-labs.com>, Alan Robertson <alanr@bell-labs.com> wrote:

> Additionally, redundant communications minimizes the chances of being bit by any
> bugs or limitations in the method you use to deal with partitioning (since it
> minimizes the chances of loss of communications).

Yes but for the improbable case it does happen you get two inconsistent
storage pools. That is you cannot do without a manual repair tool plus a
set of criteria where the HA software and/or nbd part should not attempt to
do automatic repair. 

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