| # |
| # DRBD device driver configuration |
| # |
| |
| comment "DRBD disabled because PROC_FS, INET or CONNECTOR not selected" |
| depends on PROC_FS='n' || INET='n' || CONNECTOR='n' |
| |
| config BLK_DEV_DRBD |
| tristate "DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device support" |
| depends on PROC_FS && INET && CONNECTOR |
| select LRU_CACHE |
| default n |
| help |
| |
| NOTE: In order to authenticate connections you have to select |
| CRYPTO_HMAC and a hash function as well. |
| |
| DRBD is a shared-nothing, synchronously replicated block device. It |
| is designed to serve as a building block for high availability |
| clusters and in this context, is a "drop-in" replacement for shared |
| storage. Simplistically, you could see it as a network RAID 1. |
| |
| Each minor device has a role, which can be 'primary' or 'secondary'. |
| On the node with the primary device the application is supposed to |
| run and to access the device (/dev/drbdX). Every write is sent to |
| the local 'lower level block device' and, across the network, to the |
| node with the device in 'secondary' state. The secondary device |
| simply writes the data to its lower level block device. |
| |
| DRBD can also be used in dual-Primary mode (device writable on both |
| nodes), which means it can exhibit shared disk semantics in a |
| shared-nothing cluster. Needless to say, on top of dual-Primary |
| DRBD utilizing a cluster file system is necessary to maintain for |
| cache coherency. |
| |
| For automatic failover you need a cluster manager (e.g. heartbeat). |
| See also: http://www.drbd.org/, http://www.linux-ha.org |
| |
| If unsure, say N. |
| |
| config DRBD_FAULT_INJECTION |
| bool "DRBD fault injection" |
| depends on BLK_DEV_DRBD |
| help |
| |
| Say Y here if you want to simulate IO errors, in order to test DRBD's |
| behavior. |
| |
| The actual simulation of IO errors is done by writing 3 values to |
| /sys/module/drbd/parameters/ |
| |
| enable_faults: bitmask of... |
| 1 meta data write |
| 2 read |
| 4 resync data write |
| 8 read |
| 16 data write |
| 32 data read |
| 64 read ahead |
| 128 kmalloc of bitmap |
| 256 allocation of EE (epoch_entries) |
| |
| fault_devs: bitmask of minor numbers |
| fault_rate: frequency in percent |
| |
| Example: Simulate data write errors on /dev/drbd0 with a probability of 5%. |
| echo 16 > /sys/module/drbd/parameters/enable_faults |
| echo 1 > /sys/module/drbd/parameters/fault_devs |
| echo 5 > /sys/module/drbd/parameters/fault_rate |
| |
| If unsure, say N. |