[DRBD-user] XFS issues

Ilya korovin ilya0 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 11 18:34:58 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Rather then moving to ext3, I would suggest trying out
JFS. It is slightly slower then XFS, but much faster
then ext3. We've been running drbd+jfs for several
months now, and it's been stable under heavy loads.

Ilya

--- sebastian schmitzdorff
<sebastian.schmitzdorff at ina-germany.de> wrote:
> 
> > Last night I just completed a two-node cluster
> running Debian GNU/Linux
> > Woody with some backports from Backports.org to
> allow it to run Linux
> > kernel 2.6.11.6 and DRBD 0.7.10. The machines are
> IBM xSeries 345, with
> > 4 x 2.8GHz logical Xeon processors, 2GB RAM, and 4
> x 36.4GB 10,000RPM
> > SCSI hard drives in RAID 5EE. They are connected
> through their e1000
> > network interfaces by a crossover cable, with MTU
> for both interfaces
> > set to 9018.
> > 
> > The system seems to be fine. Initial
> synchronization went well, failover
> > works fine, and so far the filesystem has not yet
> experienced any
> > corruption. Last night I ran bonnie++, and will
> find out later in the
> > day how the system fares. I'm running bonnie++ not
> as much to test
> > performance but to test how XFS + DRBD will
> respond under the load it
> > puts.
> > 
> > Can those who have tested the XFS + DRBD
> combination and gotten into
> > problems share what they did that led to these
> problems? I'd like to try
> > to reproduce all these and see how the cluster
> fares. I will let the
> > list know, of course.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot in advance.
> > 
> >  --> Jijo
> > 
> 
> Hello Frederico,
> 
> to crash my XFS + DRBD system it only needs some
> time and a moderate
> load, there are approximatley 500MB of log files
> written every day. It
> takes roundabout 1-2 day's here until it will crash
> during
> sychronization.
> 
> I will seriously consider moving from XFS to ext3
> the follwoing days,
> since I have no indication that this issue will be
> addressed soon
> (unless I buy a support contract for drbd, which i
> cannot do).
> I'm quite interested how your testing goes.
> 
> greets
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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