On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Bart Coninckx <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bart.coninckx@telenet.be">bart.coninckx@telenet.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
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am reading the Novell docs on DRBD and one of the ways they mention to speed<br>
up DRBD is using external metadata. Possibly a hard question to answer but<br>
could someone indicate by what degree this would enhance speed (provided using<br>
a sufficient fast disk for the metadata, like a SSD)?<br>
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thx!<br>
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Bart<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A RAID controller with a backed-write cache essentially nullifies any advantage there. A RAID controller that can instantly return on FUA-writes is what you want.</div><div>-JR </div>
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