How to build a highly available fileserver with Linux

Apr 03, 2009, 22:33 (0 Talkback[s])

"You will need

2 x identical linux servers
2 nic's in each

"This is a fairly straight forward setup, for this walk through i will use CentOS as it has everything we need, so start off by installing CentOS on your servers.

"You will next need to install DRBD on them both

yum install kmod-drbd

"You will need two identical partitions on each server (sda3 in this example)"

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