[DRBD-user] filesystem corruptions

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Oct 3 16:21:09 CEST 2005

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


/ 2005-10-03 11:27:19 +0200
\ Matthias Weigel:
> Hello Bro,
> 
> two suggestions:
> 1. I once had weird problems with SATA drives that went away when i
> upgraded the systems BIOS. Sometimes drives also have a upgradable
> firmware.  So look out for BIOS and drive firmware updates.
> 
> 2. I would try to eliminate DRBD as a cause of your problems: Create a
> filesystem directly on your SATA drives, without DRBD. Then do a
> stress test on it, e.g. use bonnie. If errors show up, you know it is
> not DRBD.

but if no errors show up, you still do not know for sure it is drbd:
problems may just be in an other storage area,
problems may just occur if you have simultaneous local-io and network load,
...

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