[DRBD-user] DRBD performance over GBit Ethernet

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Thu Apr 8 16:10:03 CEST 2004

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


On 2004-04-08T15:41:57,
   Andreas Semt <as at computer-leipzig.de> said:

> >Uhm. You better pray to heaven that that is battery-buffered ;-)
> You can buy an extra battery for the controller (expensive), but the 
> servers are fused by really big USVs and there are some emergency power 
> generators, too. So I hope that's enough ;-)

That won't protect the cache on the controller against a power supply
failure.

When I say "battery buffer the controller", that's exactly what I mean
;)


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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