Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Rather then moving to ext3, I would suggest trying out JFS. It is slightly slower then XFS, but much faster then ext3. We've been running drbd+jfs for several months now, and it's been stable under heavy loads. Ilya --- sebastian schmitzdorff <sebastian.schmitzdorff at ina-germany.de> wrote: > > > Last night I just completed a two-node cluster > running Debian GNU/Linux > > Woody with some backports from Backports.org to > allow it to run Linux > > kernel 2.6.11.6 and DRBD 0.7.10. The machines are > IBM xSeries 345, with > > 4 x 2.8GHz logical Xeon processors, 2GB RAM, and 4 > x 36.4GB 10,000RPM > > SCSI hard drives in RAID 5EE. They are connected > through their e1000 > > network interfaces by a crossover cable, with MTU > for both interfaces > > set to 9018. > > > > The system seems to be fine. Initial > synchronization went well, failover > > works fine, and so far the filesystem has not yet > experienced any > > corruption. Last night I ran bonnie++, and will > find out later in the > > day how the system fares. I'm running bonnie++ not > as much to test > > performance but to test how XFS + DRBD will > respond under the load it > > puts. > > > > Can those who have tested the XFS + DRBD > combination and gotten into > > problems share what they did that led to these > problems? I'd like to try > > to reproduce all these and see how the cluster > fares. I will let the > > list know, of course. > > > > Thanks a lot in advance. > > > > --> Jijo > > > > Hello Frederico, > > to crash my XFS + DRBD system it only needs some > time and a moderate > load, there are approximatley 500MB of log files > written every day. It > takes roundabout 1-2 day's here until it will crash > during > sychronization. > > I will seriously consider moving from XFS to ext3 > the follwoing days, > since I have no indication that this issue will be > addressed soon > (unless I buy a support contract for drbd, which i > cannot do). > I'm quite interested how your testing goes. > > greets > > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/