[DRBD-user] DisklessClient Performance

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Wed Mar 23 23:25:27 CET 2005

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


On 2005-03-23T16:49:53, Brett Bolen <hbbolen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> How is the performance when the primary fails, and it is running
> as diskless client?

Pretty close (80-90%) to the minimum of network bandwidth vs disk
bandwidth.

So slower than local disk (in particular for reads; writes would have
went over the network anyway), but better than crashing the application,
thus allowing for graceful switch-over instead.


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

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