Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hello, excuse me. I'm new here. I hope I don't violate any policiy by jumping in here and stealing this thread. But Florian Haas wrote 02.12.2008 08:07: > ..., and unless you're on an > age-old I/O subsystem that doesn't have a RAID controller with > battery-backed write cache, just use internal metadata. What if DRBD is used on top of Linux software RAID? So imagine off-the-shelf hardware: two boxes with two SATA drives each connected to two standard PC motherboards with no hardware RAID and no batteries at all involved. Although this is new hardware I suspect that this situation might be somewhat comparable with what you describe as "age-old I/O subsystem". Are there any reasons to not use internal metadata in this situation? Does it make any sense to buy for example a CF-Card adapter or a solid state disk to store the DRBD metadata on another may be safer device? Regards, Peter -- Peter Funk, ✉Oldenburger Str.86, D-27777 Ganderkesee, Germany office: ArtCom GmbH, ✉Lise-Meitner-Str. 5, D-28359 Bremen, Germany tel:+49-421-20419-0 cell:+49-179-640-8878 <http://www.artcom-gmbh.de/>