[DRBD-user] Please help with slow Replication / Syncing on debian squeeze 6.0, 8-disk RAID6

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Tue Mar 13 21:01:09 CET 2012

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


On Tuesday 13 March 2012 14:14:37 Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:
> One more thing and then I'll leave it at this:
> 
> Disabling the dwc on the slave node does NOT slow down the sync, it's
> still ticking along happily at 100MB/sec. Can anyone tell me if HP's
> RAID6 controller trial licenses have some sort of bandwidth limit
> imposed on them? It's hard to imagine, but I've seen worse in my
> days. ;-)
> 
> Today we installed permanent RAID6 licenses on both boxes, that's why
> I'm suspecting the above might actually be the case.

There goes another reason why we use software-raid even when the controller 
has its own raid-modi...

Do they also charge you a data-rescue license fee when your controller brakes 
and you have to rescue the data from your disks with a replacement-controller?

Have fun,

Arnold
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