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Hi Stefan,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your response.<br>
<br>
The home router probably isn't gigabit, although the NICs in each
machine are - good point.<br>
<br>
/proc/mdstat reveals that the 1.8TB raid5s are also still synchronising
- so I guess that'll be impacting DRBD sync speed<br>
<br>
Do meta disks swell with disk size? I have a 500MB RAID1 /boot
partition which I could jam it on, or should I create a (much larger?)
RAID1 partition dedicated to this purpose?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Henri <br>
<br>
<br>
Stefan Seifert wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Saturday, 09. August 2008, Henri Cook wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
I've just configured a 1.8TB DRBD shared device on a pair of machines
connected to the same fairly standard home router (the documentation is
_excellent_ by the way!)
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I hope that home router at least has Gigabit., though the best connection for
DRBD would be a simple cable without any switch in between.
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<pre wrap="">The two devices are synchronising now but worryingly very slowly and i'm
not sure if it's a RAID5 issue or what? Here's an example of /proc/drbd.
Eventually I want to go for a Primary/Primary setup
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Are the RAID devices themselves even synchronized yet? What does
cat /proc/mdstat say?
Also: never put a drbd meta disk on a MD RAID 5. Its painfully slow (and may
be a reason for what you see). RAID 1 should be ok.
Regards,
Stefan
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