[DRBD-user] Question about Loopbak device

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Jul 6 12:56:04 CEST 2004

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/ 2004-07-01 14:23:08 -0300
\ Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto:
> Hi,
> 
>    I've started to test drbd a few days ago (SuSE9.0/drbd-0.6.6-103),
> and
> all of the tests were successful, but just yesterday I've seen in one of
> the docs that drbd should not be used with loop devices(/dev/loop0,etc),
> but I did a lot of tests using drbd with /dev/loop0 as a low device and
> everything worked just perfect.

from the top of my head I can not quote the exact issue,
but it is some possible resource starvation deadlock
in the basic io request handling.

> Did I just get lucky ?

most likely, yes.

	Lars Ellenberg



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