[DRBD-user] [OT] rsync issues [Was Re: Read performance?]

David Masover ninja at slaphack.com
Wed Jun 6 01:31:50 CEST 2007

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


On Tuesday 05 June 2007 14:44:07 Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----

> Then in remote sites C, D and E you can mount these NFS shares on
> Solaris boxes that provide a nice local storage backing store which
> caches the files as they are accessed, verifying they are current
> on each access. First access will feel the latency, but all other
> accesses afterward should be quick, unless some other site changes
> the file, then it will be slow untill latest cached copy is
> downloaded.

I see... Except, how do you know the caches are current without at least doing 
a stat on the file? And wouldn't that stat itself starve?

Kind of a waste, though, since "C, D, and E" in your example are the same box 
as A.

> > Nowdays, even with synchronous replication (over a slow DSL
> > link, over a VPN),
> > the whole backup process takes a little under an hour, mostly
> > thanks to
> > BackupPC's pooling and compression. Since this happens
> > overnight, I'm not
> > even there to notice slow reads.
>
> If you keep backups local and replicate them behind the scenes
> to a central repository that might help.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. It sort of sounds like what we're doing 
already.
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