Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
AFAIK, the internal meta-data of DRBD has two hardcoded things: - its size of 128MB, and - the fact that it's stored at the end of the block device I know I can store the meta-data externally but wouldn't we have better performance if DRBD was storing its meta-data at the beginning of the block device (inner hard disk "tracks", shorter average distance to the data, etc.)? Anyone has already been running benches about the difference between internal and external meta-data? I think that those internal/external statistics should be very close to the situation where DRBD stores the meta-data at the beginning of the block device if the external meta-data is just before the real data. I can see a nice side-effect: we could more easily shrink the size of the device if the meta-data was not at the end. By the way, I'm writting a mini-HOWTO about that, I'll send a draft here later on this week. -- Cyril Bouthors -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20060913/0b30bc91/attachment.pgp>