Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Nate Carlson wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Todd Denniston wrote: > > In the systems that have been having trouble getting the speed they want > > out of 0.7, has anyone tried putting the metadata on a separate physical > > disk (not in the same RAID either)? > > I just attempted putting the metadata on a loopback device where the loop > file was located in a tmpfs partition (no other physical devices available > in these boxes), and get the same poor performance. Is that an adequate > test? I would have expected it to be sufficient, though I was not expecting DRBD to work with a loop device. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter