DRBD and MySQL - Excellent Low-cost HA Solution Dec 10, 2009, 23 :32 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5473 reads) (Other stories by Sean Hull)
"HA with MySQL Replication
"MySQL high availability is often implemented with its in-built replication technology. The standard master-slave configuration provides one database as the primary, receiving all write traffic that is all changes to data. Read traffic, i.e. SELECT queries, can be sent to the primary or to the replicated slaves. Transactions flow on the primary database into its binary log. The slave keeps a watchful eye on the primary, copying new transactions into its own relay log. Keep in mind until 5.1 this involved copying the *actual* SQL statements albeit in binary form. Once they make it to the slave database, another thread then applies those SQL statements in a serial fashion thus theoretically keeping that slave in the same state as the primary.
"The trouble comes when your replication stops, and the error log shows some funny error about duplicate keys or failed primary key constraint. How's that possible? If all the same transactions are being applied in serial, the two databases should never have a case like this. Strange indeed. It turns out that as we all know, a lot of things can happen when a query executes to interrupt it or cause otherwise anomalous behavior."
