Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx at telenet.be>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)? > > thx! > > Bart > A RAID controller with a backed-write cache essentially nullifies any advantage there. A RAID controller that can instantly return on FUA-writes is what you want. -JR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20110110/98e68623/attachment.htm>