[DRBD-user] [DRBD-announce] drbd-8.4.1.tar.gz

Andreas Kurz andreas.kurz at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 23:26:16 CET 2011

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


On 12/27/2011 09:45 PM, Lutz Vieweg wrote:
> On 12/20/2011 03:37 PM, Philipp Reisner wrote:
>> Once again I am proud to announce a new release: 8.4.1
> 
>> New features
>>   * Read load balancing.
>>    That might be of interest if you have a faster network between
>>    your DRBD nodes in place, and want to benefit of the secondary's
>>    IO bandwidth for reading.
> 
> That sounds nice for one of our DRBD clusters, where there's
> a dedicated, short 10GBit/s connection, but rather slow magnetic
> disks on both ends.
> 
>>   * Optional load balancing for read requests: new keyword "read-balance"

should be: "read-balancing" ....

Regards,
Andreas

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> 
> Alas, I couldn't find way to enable this.
> 
>> tar xOzf drbd-8.4.1.tar.gz | grep "read-balance"
> yields just the one line from the ChangeLog:
>> * Optional load balancing for read requests: new keyword "read-balance"
> 
> ... so I wonder, is this really implemented?
> 
>>   * Works with Linux-3.2
> 
> I'm currently running 3.1.6, I hope this is also still supported.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lutz Vieweg
> 
> 
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