Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 12/20/2011 03:37 PM, Philipp Reisner wrote: > Once again I am proud to announce a new release: 8.4.1 > New features > * Read load balancing. > That might be of interest if you have a faster network between > your DRBD nodes in place, and want to benefit of the secondary's > IO bandwidth for reading. That sounds nice for one of our DRBD clusters, where there's a dedicated, short 10GBit/s connection, but rather slow magnetic disks on both ends. > * Optional load balancing for read requests: new keyword "read-balance" Alas, I couldn't find way to enable this. > tar xOzf drbd-8.4.1.tar.gz | grep "read-balance" yields just the one line from the ChangeLog: > * Optional load balancing for read requests: new keyword "read-balance" ... so I wonder, is this really implemented? > * Works with Linux-3.2 I'm currently running 3.1.6, I hope this is also still supported. Regards, Lutz Vieweg