[DRBD-user] DRBD performance (only uses 40% of a GE link)

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Mar 3 18:02:41 CET 2008

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


On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:51:12PM +0900, Christian Balzer wrote:
> > synchronous writes don't have the best latency characteristics
> > with md raid5.
> >
> Yeah, but a RAID10 is just too... wasteful. ^^

you currently have 8 1TB disks in a md raid5 setup.
you could have 4 smallish md raid1s in the first partition,
and then still have the one big md raid5 on the rest of them.

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