[Linux-HA] Shared configration files using DRBD

[Chris Picton]

Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello Chris,
> 
>> Are there any problems from treating all services like this -
>> (postfix/dovecot/ftp/etc), as long as I dont try share data which is
>> specific to each machine?
> 
> I think it is legitimate to share the configuration files on a shared
> disk if you need the shared disk for _that_ service anyway. But for
> example I would not put the OpenVPN configuration or the configuration
> file of an apache loadbalancer on a shared disk because drbd adds
> another dependency to the chain of things that can go wrong. So I keep
> the dependencies as small as possible for each distinct service.

Yes, that makes sense.

I was thinking in the case where the service's data files are required 
to be shared anyway, then sharing the configs can't harm anything.

Chris