[DRBD-user] Better performance with meta-data at the beginning of the device?

paddy paddy at panici.net
Wed Sep 13 18:49:59 CEST 2006

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


On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:09:48PM -0400, Diego Julian Remolina wrote:
> Cyril Bouthors wrote:
> >AFAIK, the internal meta-data of DRBD has two hardcoded things:
> >
> > - its size of 128MB, and
> > - the fact that it's stored at the end of the block device
> >
> >I know I can store the meta-data externally but wouldn't we have
> >better performance if DRBD was storing its meta-data at the beginning
> >of the block device (inner hard disk "tracks", shorter average
> 
> This does not seem to make sense; the inner tracks have lower performance 
> because the linear speed is slower there and the amount of data you can 
> store is less. 

what about seeks ?

Regards,
Paddy
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