Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 03/08/2011 10:58 AM, Samson Yeung wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm investigating DRBD and have a question, in case I skipped over a > config option in the documentation. > > In most cases, it absolutely makes sense for reads to be satisfied > from the primary's local disk because it's fastest. However, in my > specific case involving busy fileservers and spinning disks, requests > via the dedicated 10-gig connection between servers and un-busy disks > on the secondary is faster than reading from the busy disks on the > primary. > > So, does drbd support satisfying read requests by sending the read > request over the drbd link to the secondary node's disks? Not today, but in the future: http://www.drbd.org/home/roadmap/ It may happen sooner rather than later with sponsorship ;) > (I am *not* talking about being able to mount the secondary on the > secondary machine.) > > > -Samson > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user