[DRBD-user] DRBD performance over GBit Ethernet

Andreas Semt as at computer-leipzig.de
Thu Apr 8 16:22:40 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.


Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> 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.
> 

Of course, it won't. The power supply is one of the so called "single 
point(s) of failure" here.

-- 
Best regards,
Andreas Semt



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