<table width=100% dir="ltr"><tr><td><DIV name="wrteplaceholder"><BR>We are currently using drbd with a big partition for high availability between two machines.</DIV>
<DIV name="wrteplaceholder">We have a problem of disk space and one way of solving it is to divide the big partition to</DIV>
<DIV name="wrteplaceholder">two partitions, and have drbd synch both of them between the two machines.</DIV>
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<DIV name="wrteplaceholder">I have read the drbd article on the documentation directory of drbd-0.6.11 and the configuration</DIV>
<DIV name="wrteplaceholder">file example there has a configuration similar to the one I require. Two partitions on a single disk.</DIV>
<DIV name="wrteplaceholder">The comment, however, warns against using such a configuration, since we may get poor performance.</DIV>
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<DIV name="wrteplaceholder">What should I expect to be the extra cost in performance of dividing the big partition into two, given the the amount of</DIV>
<DIV name="wrteplaceholder">writes to the two partitions remains the same as the one to the single partition we currently have.</DIV>
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<DIV name="wrteplaceholder">Thanks,</DIV>
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<DIV name="wrteplaceholder">Doron</DIV>
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