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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by regularfry on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:37AM (#5939307)
You can do it the other way round: have your data on direct-attached storage and network mount the root filesystem.
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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by contingencies on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @11:21AM (#5940069)
We do well with DRBD as an alternative here .. adequate network redundancy without performance penalties.
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Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck by regularfry on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @01:01PM (#5947320)
"Adequate" is an interesting word :-) We don't consider DRBD in anything other than synchronous replication mode to be reliable, which puts a fair performance penalty on it.
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