[DRBD-user] Weird Protocol C Behaviour

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Thu Jan 10 22:29:51 CET 2013

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On 6 January 2013 12:27, James Harper <james.harper at bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm running DRBD from Debian Squeeze (Version: 8.3.7 (api:88))
>>
>> I'm having a strange issue where if I do a write on the primary I'm
>> getting the full speed of the BBU cached RAID card:
>>
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/test/test121212 bs=1M count=1000
>> 1000+0 records in
>> 1000+0 records out
>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.16411 s, 901 MB/s
>>
>
> How sure are you that the primary is being written to immediately and that Linux isn't just being lazy about writing the data at all?
>
> Try oflag=direct to make sure there is no buffering on the primary.
>
> James
>

James,

Of course you were correct, apologies, its the simple things!

Brian



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