Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Am Dienstag, 1. November 2005 18:48 schrieb Jeff Fisher: > Does anyone have any benchmarks on whether drbd performs better with 2.6 > than it does 2.4? We're happy with our current mail stores using linux > 2.4 but I have the opportunity to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel. One reason > for 2.6 is the directory hashing in ext3 but I'd like some reasons for > drbd also. 2.6 has a much improved block IO subsystem, the visibly parts of the iceberg are the io-schedulers. I do not have benchmarks, but I feel much more confident that 2.6 could make more use of performant disks than 2.4 -phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, Austria http://www.linbit.com :