HAST with broken HDD

InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter jg at internetx.com
Wed Oct 1 12:48:00 UTC 2014


Am 01.10.2014 um 14:28 schrieb George Kontostanos:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:55 PM, InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter
> <jg at internetx.com <mailto:jg at internetx.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Am 01.10.2014 um 10:54 schrieb JF-Bogaerts:
>     >    Hello,
>     >    I'm preparing a HA NAS solution using HAST.
>     >    I'm wondering what will happen if one of disks of the primary node will
>     >    fail or become erratic.
>     >
>     >    Thx,
>     >    Jean-François Bogaerts
> 
>     nothing. if you are using zfs on top of hast zfs wont even take notice
>     about the disk failure.
> 
>     as long as the write operation was sucessfull on one of the 2 nodes,
>     hast doesnt notify the ontop layers about io errors.
> 
>     interesting concept, took me some time to deal with this.
> 
> 
> Are you saying that the pool will appear to be optimal even with a bad
> drive?  
> 
> 

right, dont try to compare it with drbd the concept differs in basic
things completly. check https://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST


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