Hi, When releasing a volume I can see it starting an operation called ForwardMulti. I have 5 remote replicas for a volume and it seems to start three ForwardMulti sessions (two with single replica fileserver (ro3, ro5) and 1 with three (ro1 + ro2 + ro4)). Based on the observation (see the release report at the bottom) the sessions are started in sequence and all replications within same session run in parallel. If each individual replication operation takes T_repl time it means each ForwardMulti session also takes T_repl time and in my case the whole release operation takes 3*T_repl time. That makes me to think that it could have taken only 1*T_repl time had all the replications been made within single ForwardMulti session.
I don't seem to be able to find any information about what the ForwardMulti is and why some replications are made within single ForwardMulti session and others in separate ones. Just to give some background all the roX fileservers are in same rack, on same network. How can I make all the replication to run within single ForwardMulti session? Thanks, Antony. The typical release in my case produces following report: /usr/sbin/vos release proj.prj1 -verbose proj.prj1 RWrite: 536871449 ROnly: 536871450 Backup: 536871451 number of sites -> 7 server rw1 partition /vicepa RW Site server rw1 partition /vicepa RO Site server ro5 partition /vicepa RO Site server ro1 partition /vicepa RO Site server ro4 partition /vicepa RO Site server ro2 partition /vicepa RO Site server ro3 partition /vicepa RO Site This is a complete release of volume 536871449 Re-cloning permanent RO volume 536871450 ... done Getting status of parent volume 536871449... done Starting transaction on RO clone volume 536871450... done Setting volume flags for volume 536871450... done Ending transaction on volume 536871450... done Replacing VLDB entry for proj.prj1... done Starting transaction on cloned volume 536871450... done Updating existing ro volume 536871450 on ro5 ... Starting ForwardMulti from 536871450 to 536871450 on ro5 (as of Wed Sep 18 08:23:33 2013). Updating existing ro volume 536871450 on ro1 ... Updating existing ro volume 536871450 on ro4 ... Updating existing ro volume 536871450 on ro2 ... Starting ForwardMulti from 536871450 to 536871450 on ro1 and ro4 and ro2 (as of Wed Sep 18 08:23:33 2013). Updating existing ro volume 536871450 on ro3 ... Starting ForwardMulti from 536871450 to 536871450 on ro3 (as of Wed Sep 18 08:23:33 2013). updating VLDB ... done Released volume proj.prj1 successfully
