Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I have a doubt not just ... I'll explain better I have this situation, implemented with CentOS 5.5 x86_64: two nodes, each node has a raid controller with BBU, two network interface bonding round-robin with dedicated cables I set up the raid array like this: sda1 / boot sda2 / sda3 swap sda5 - just partition (disk drbd) I configure drbd with dual primary and with the usual protocol C use other parameters to improve performance: common { syncer {rate 100M;} } ... disk { on-io-error detach; use-bmbv; no-disk-flushes; no-md-flushes; } .... net { timeout 60; # 6 seconds (unit = 0.1 seconds) connect-int 10, # 10 seconds (unit = 1 second) ping-int 10, # 10 seconds (unit = 1 second) ping-timeout 5; # 500 ms (unit = 0.1 seconds) max-buffers 2048; unplug-watermark 128; max-epoch-size 2048; ko-count 5; allow-two-primaries; after-sb-0pri disconnect; after-sb-1pri disconnect; after-sb-2pri disconnect; rr-conflict disconnect; } ... syncer { rate 100M; al-extents 257; } ... on node1 { device /dev/drbd0; disk /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600605b0014416401257a2af36d89bfc-part5; address 10.0.42.251:7788; meta-disk internal; } on node2 { device /dev/drbd0; disk /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600605b0014403f0125c874d21c5521d-part5; address 10.0.42.252:7788; meta-disk internal; } if I check the status of drbd the following response is: 0: cs: Connected ro: Primary/Primary ds: UpToDate/UpToDate C r ---- ns: 640864680 nr: 135234784 dw: 776099464 dr: 1520599328 al: 836478 bm: 2185 lo: 0 pe: 0 ua: 0 ap: 0 ep: 1 wo: b OOS: 0 I do not know if it is positive that the to write after write method is Barrier .... reading the manuals of drbd I noticed that in these cases (BBU) performance would be better for a wo:n What do you think? more to this I can tell you that another hardware configuration with a simple SATA disks in software raid 0 configuration (sda and sdb) and without drbd.conf options: no-disk-flushes -no-md-flushes, The drbd uses instead the drain ... that seems to be dangerous without a BBU, but the drbd has preferred this choice, and not clear to me ... -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/DRBD-write-after-write-%28cache%29-tp30850998p30850998.html Sent from the DRBD - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.