Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Monday 10 January 2011 14:39:53 Felix Frank wrote: > On 01/09/2011 05:03 PM, Bart Coninckx wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > am reading the Novell docs on DRBD and one of the ways they mention to > > speed up DRBD is using external metadata. Possibly a hard question to > > answer but could someone indicate by what degree this would enhance > > speed (provided using a sufficient fast disk for the metadata, like a > > SSD)? > > Hi, > > I'd believe that the greater part of the benefit stems from having > seperate physical devices write data vs. metadata. Think of all the > seeks necessary to flush the activity log all the time. > > Being such, I'd also expect SSD to suffer no penalty from internal > metadata. But I'd be happy to stand corrected. > > Cheers, > Felix Hi, I don't mean the actual DRBD would be on SSD (way too expensive), but just the metadata. thx, B.