[DRBD-user] Found a new disk flush error code

Thomas Reinhold it-beratung at thomasreinhold.de
Fri Dec 19 20:44:36 CET 2008

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Am 18.12.2008 um 17:27 schrieb Lars Ellenberg:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:46:10PM +0100, Thomas Reinhold wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've done a little further testing and ran DRBD directly on top of  
>> the raid set
>> (without using dm_crypt). Still got the same disk flush errors when  
>> having
>> flushing enabled.
>>
>> So can I assume that either the lower level scsi driver  
>> megaraid_sas (Debian
>> 2.6.18.6-amd64) or the raid controller (LSI MegaRaid 1078) does not  
>> support
>> flushing?
>
> absolutely.
>
>> And another question: Can disabling flushing in DRBD cause any  
>> other problems
>> than data corruptions at power loss?
>
> I'd say "no" if you promise not to sue me in case I'm wrong.

How could I sue you for using a free product? I would have to buy a  
support contract first ;-)

Anyways, thanks for your help! I have disabled the raid controller  
cache for now, as I dislike the idea of having too much data in cache  
(even though we are using an UPS).

The disk caches are still enabled, however, as the performance impact  
of disabling both caches would be too great. We'll see how that works  
with XFS.

If we encounter any problems, I'll get back to the list.


Regards,

   Thomas


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