… could destroy the original master tooâ€, however, is plain false. DRBD won’t “destroy the original master†any more than… replication is however something quite helpful for some environments. Though DRBD also could be extended to support one if needed. Now… to use same approach for MySQL as they use for PostgreSQL for example instead of investing time to learn about MySQL…
Post: Faster MySQL failover with SELECT mirroring
February 1, 2009 By 9 Comments
… guaranteed). You don’t get this with shared storage or DRBD, although those provide stronger guarantees against data loss if mysqld… Robert Hodges just published an article on warm standby for PostgreSQL. Link love for interested readers.
