Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Ethernet CRC-32 and Data integrity?

2010-11-29 Thread Adi Kriegisch
David, I've been looking at AoE and I'm trying to understand what affect the Ethernet CRC-32 data integrity checking has on the AoE communications? Particularly when going to GbE and jumbo frames support there seems to be some data out there that there is a chance that the CRC32 won't

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Throughput for raw AoE device versus filesystem

2011-07-06 Thread Adi Kriegisch
Hi! What filesystem do you use? XFS is known to be the recommended filesystem for AoE. Actually I think this could be due to RAID block sizes: most AoE implementations assume a block size of 512Byte. If you're using a linux software RAID5 with a default chunk size of 512K and you're

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Throughput for raw AoE device versus filesystem

2011-07-07 Thread Adi Kriegisch
Hi! (actually write barriers should be enabled for all those AoE devices -- especially with newer kernels.)

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] end_request: I/O error

2015-06-16 Thread Adi Kriegisch
Hey! Honestly..I don't know what those dropped packets, it;s just a new installed system. I see... depending on what services are running on that network, this might be some avahi messages or similar stuff; in case this is a storage-only network and there is no other stuff floating

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] end_request: I/O error

2015-06-16 Thread Adi Kriegisch
Hey! I was trying to relocating my storage from 1 server to another, the old one has aoe driver version 81 installed, the new has 85 installed, I see this error message on the new system only. Is there a way to fix them? [...] Jun 15 17:11:01 cluster kernel: [ 1243.965424]

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] end_request: I/O error

2015-06-17 Thread Adi Kriegisch
Hi! Probably my MTU is too high? Thanks again. I actually don't think so. A MTU of 9000 is quite common and the Dell interface (em1) you showed us is quite capable. @Ed: Excellent hint to use aoe-sancheck! I completely missed that... # aoe-sancheck [...] eth2    UP      9000