[DRBD-user] DRBD write after write (cache)

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Feb 11 16:01:33 CET 2011

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


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 02:16:06AM -0800, ionral wrote:
> 
> >Do not use "no-disk-drain", unless you are absolutely sure that nothing 
> >in the IO stack below DRBD could possibly reorder writes. 
> 
> in my case I really think so or not??
> 
>  I have this situation:
> 
>  sda -> drbd0 -> pv -> vg -> lv (virtual disks for virtual machine)

actually it is sda -> linux block layer elevator -> drbd,
so there is reordering involved there.

and depending on what exactly sda is (some external raid box?)
there may very well be reordering there, too.

So, no. Just don't.

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