[DRBD-user] Why use a clustered FS with DRBD

2010-05-20 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I hoping someone would be kind enough to help me understand this or least provide a follow back answer. Someone asked me yestersday What is the added advantage of using DRBD with a clustered filesystem (e.g. OCFS), as opposed to using just a clustered filesystem . I didnt have the

Re: [DRBD-user] Why use a clustered FS with DRBD

2010-05-20 Thread Florian Haas
On 05/20/2010 09:53 AM, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I hoping someone would be kind enough to help me understand this or least provide a follow back answer. Someone asked me yestersday What is the added advantage of using DRBD with a clustered filesystem (e.g. OCFS), as opposed to using just a

Re: [DRBD-user] Why use a clustered FS with DRBD

2010-05-20 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello Brent, with drbd stored data exists replicated (the 'r' in drbd is for replicated) in all the nodes of the cluster and that is arguably the central aim of drbd: to have data consistently replicated on each node. in typical clustered filesystems scenarios you'dd have many nodes

Re: [DRBD-user] Rescanning LVM after DRBD starts on CentOS 5

2010-05-20 Thread Ben Timby
Comes with Pacemaker: /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/LVM I ended up building RPMs for Pacemaker/Heartbeat. All of the Heartbeat RPMs I could find in repositories (for example: epel) were too old for me. If you use x86_64, I can send them to you. Otherwise, the guide is linked below.

[DRBD-user] bond for drbd identical performance with one link down

2010-05-20 Thread Bart Coninckx
Hi, Admittedly not a DRBD issue per se, but I guess this list represents quite some experience in the area: I have two gigabit NICs bonded in balance-rr mode for DRBD sync. They are directly linked (no switch) to the other other pair in the other DRBD node. Before syncing things I was

Re: [DRBD-user] bond for drbd identical performance with one link down

2010-05-20 Thread Lee Riemer
Do you need multiple destination IPs to properly balance? It is my understanding that a single stream will only traverse a single link. Hence the MPIO requirement. On 5/20/2010 1:07 PM, Bart Coninckx wrote: Hi, Admittedly not a DRBD issue per se, but I guess this list represents quite

Re: [DRBD-user] bond for drbd identical performance with one link down

2010-05-20 Thread Ben Timby
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Lee Riemer lrie...@bestline.net wrote: Do you need multiple destination IPs to properly balance?  It is my understanding that a single stream will only traverse a single link.  Hence the MPIO requirement. Actually, balance-rr is the only mode that can stripe a

Re: [DRBD-user] bond for drbd identical performance with one link down

2010-05-20 Thread Bart Coninckx
On Thursday 20 May 2010 20:39:40 Ben Timby wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Lee Riemer lrie...@bestline.net wrote: Do you need multiple destination IPs to properly balance? It is my understanding that a single stream will only traverse a single link. Hence the MPIO requirement.

Re: [DRBD-user] bond for drbd identical performance with one link down

2010-05-20 Thread Ben Timby
My point was that balance-rr is the ONLY mode to provide multiple link aggregation for a single tcp stream. That said, the switch's cooperation is only necessary when a switch is present. The documentation spells out why. As both interfaces share the same MAC address, the switch will recognize

Re: [DRBD-user] Rescanning LVM after DRBD starts on CentOS 5

2010-05-20 Thread Ben Timby
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Bernd Schubert bs_li...@aakef.fastmail.fm wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2010, Ben Timby wrote: Comes with Pacemaker: /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/LVM I ended up building RPMs for Pacemaker/Heartbeat. All of the Heartbeat RPMs I could find in repositories

Re: [DRBD-user] bond for drbd identical performance with one link down

2010-05-20 Thread Bart Coninckx
On Thursday 20 May 2010 21:26:05 Ben Timby wrote: My point was that balance-rr is the ONLY mode to provide multiple link aggregation for a single tcp stream. That said, the switch's cooperation is only necessary when a switch is present. The documentation spells out why. As both interfaces

Re: [DRBD-user] Rescanning LVM after DRBD starts on CentOS 5

2010-05-20 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Thursday 20 May 2010, Ben Timby wrote: Comes with Pacemaker: /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/LVM I ended up building RPMs for Pacemaker/Heartbeat. All of the Heartbeat RPMs I could find in repositories (for example: epel) were too old for me. If you use x86_64, I can send them to

Re: [DRBD-user] bond for drbd identical performance with one link down

2010-05-20 Thread Ben Timby
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Bart Coninckx bart.conin...@telenet.be wrote: Since testing with a switch resulted in even poorer results, I'll shy away from that for now. Will have a go at investigating with Wireshark though seeing the problem will probably not indicate a solution right of

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-mc-0.7.3

2010-05-20 Thread Rasto Levrinc
On Thu, May 20, 2010 9:43 pm, Michael wrote: Send me please this part: cibadmin -Q | grep node_state cibadmin -Q | grep node_state node_state id=FXVS2 uname=FXVS2 Oh, uppercased hostnames. This is a known bug and it has already been fixed. I've uploaded a new dmctest-0.7.4.dev.1.jar to

Re: [DRBD-user] bond for drbd identical performance with one link down

2010-05-20 Thread Bart Coninckx
- Original message - Since testing with a switch resulted in even poorer results, I'll shy away from that for now. You might use a better switch, the 1810's are web based mgmt only and have small buffers iirc and are not very enterprisable units, their performance might not be