On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 05:54:54PM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > The controller getting the request mirrors the request to the second > controller (in this case there is only 1, there can be up to 7 other). > Then it acknowledges the request and writes it to disk. Each controller > has double batteries to be able to finish any pending writes. If a > controller fails, it will only acknowledge the write after it is > physical on the disk. This is part of the 3Par operation. I have > submitted a request to 3Par to check the extensive logs they generate to > see if there is anything which can explain this write delay.
Ahh, ok - I was mistaken. When you said "controller" I was thinking "HBA"! So, ignore the bit about write-back versus write-through caching - I was at the wrong part of the storage stack :) So yeah, I'd try increasing the hb timeout to compensate. It'd definitely be interesting to find out why the I/O's are taking so long. They're technically allowed to, but it doesn't seem like there's a good reason for it based on your description thus far. --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users