[DRBD-user] DRBD on LVM on SoftwareRaid on SSD...

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Wed Nov 2 17:22:43 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 Wednesday 02 November 2011 11:35:37 Robert Krig wrote:
> So my question is, since the actual Harddrives are SSDs, are there any
> special options I would have to use, considering that I'm using SSDs for
> this purpose.
> The DRBD block device is mounted as ext4 with the discard option.
> But will the fact that these are SSDs, translate through all the layers?
> DRBD, LVM, SWraid?
> 
> Drbd is supposedly SSD aware, but does that still work when drbd is not
> directly formatted onto /dev/sda or /dev/sdb?

Afaik, software-raid on linux doesn't know about ssd-features.
LVM2 does know about ssd and doing the mirroring in lvm will give you all the 
benefits you are looking for.

Have fun,

Arnold
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