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From:Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin Date:June 18 2007 2:45am
Subject:Limitation of DRBD For MySQL
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Good day,

Someone gives me several limitations of DRBD For MySQL? Here is the list,

1. Idle resource – secondary host sits idle, wasted investment
2. Failover is not instant, nor transparent
        -"Cold standby" failover
3. Recovery requires time to start / recover database
4. Recovery process can fail – requires reload
5. Requires database journal capability
        -MySQL MyISAM does not work
6. Operation not continuous: planned downtime required
        -Active-passive does not cover DB maintenance
        -Anything that requires mounted disk
7. Does not address scaling or performance
8. OS Limitations – Some only run on Linux

May someone elaborate or disprove those points?
Thanks.

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Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin
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