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List:       drbd-user
Subject:    Re: [DRBD-user] possibility of "pre-sync" ?
From:       Felix Frank <ff () mpexnet ! de>
Date:       2011-02-24 16:39:08
Message-ID: 4D6689AC.6050107 () mpexnet ! de
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On 02/24/2011 02:27 PM, netz-haut - stephan seitz wrote:
> Heading back to my former question,
> Is it advisable to split huge storage into smaller chunks?
> 
> 
> Instead of:
> 
> [ ------------- big LV ------------ ]
> [ ------------- big VG ------------ ] [ -> expand later ]
> [ ---------- big DRBD PV ---------- ]
>    /                           \
>  Tgt1                          Tgt2
> 
> 
> maybe
> 
> [ ------------- big LV ------------ ]
> [ ------------- big VG ------------ ]
> [ DRBD PV1 ][ DRBD PV2 ] [ DRBD PV3 ]
>    /    \      /   \        /   \
> Tgt1a  Tgt2a  1b    2b     1c   2c
> 
> 
> ... just wondering if syncing  would scale better this way ...

Quoting DRBD Total: Don't *ever* create VGs that span multiple DRBD
resources. (Don't create such software RAIDs either).

What will you do if one of them gets splitbrained or somesuch?

Regards,
Felix
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