[DRBD-user] A simple test

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Ryan Steele wrote:
> Ben and Mark,
> 
> Thank you for your input.  I am currently fixing up my FAI configs such 
> that they do not create an MD device out of two of the unused 
> partitions, as I don't see any need to have the DRBD meta-disk striped 
> or mirrored (unless someone has any good reason pointing to the 
> contrary, e.g. significant performance gains).
> 
> Pending that, I will re-test with drbddisk and Filesystem.  Again, I 
> appreciate the advice and hopefully this will yield successful results!

um.
saying "hey, I use drbd, there is no need for raid underneath"
is similar to "hey, I have raid, there is no need for backups anymore".

and yes, you get a performance gain from using raid1,
because reads can be striped.

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