Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-26 Thread Tracy Reed
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:46:17PM +0200, Lars Täuber spake thusly: > 10GBit ggaoed offering LVs on DRBD on RAID6s I have always used the vblade from Coraid, not ggaoed. I would give it a try but I really don't want to invest any more time in this issue and whether ggaoed is going to be supported

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-26 Thread Tracy Reed
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 01:17:43PM +0200, Torbjørn Thorsen spake thusly: > * How will using iSCSI change the partition alignment problem ? > I'm guessing you have found the difference the only way that works; by trying. > It seems unclear why AoE would cause the unaligned writes, so maybe there >

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-26 Thread Lars Täuber
Am Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:17:40 +0200 Lars Erik Dangvard Jensen schrieb: > FYI: > Using XenServer 5.6 SP2 with AoE-targets (both coraid appliances and > ggaoed) I get the same diskspeeds in XenServer dom0 and VM domU. This is my experience too. But with xen_major : 4 xen_minor

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-26 Thread Torbjørn Thorsen
Very interesting answer, thank you. Partition alignment, and IO performance in general, is something I'm trying to get better grips on. FWIW, we're on AoE 47 (stock Debian kernel), with AoE clients using two AoE devices as a backing device for a RAID1 device. It works well enough, but performance

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-26 Thread Lars Erik Dangvard Jensen
Den 26/04/2012 kl. 13.02 skrev Tracy Reed: >>> >>> 1. Disk alignment between Xen VMs and the target. >> >> What do you mean by that? > > I mean that when I configure a Xen VM to use an AoE block device I always had > mis-aligned writes. The Xen dom0 has the block device in /dev/etherd and I put

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-26 Thread Tracy Reed
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Lars Täuber spake thusly: > Tracy Reed schrieb: > > Reasons why I am currently migrating away from AoE to iSCSI (*sigh*): > > > > 1. Disk alignment between Xen VMs and the target. > > What do you mean by that? I mean that when I configure a Xen VM to us

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-25 Thread Lars Täuber
Hi Tracy, Am Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:42:33 -0700 Tracy Reed schrieb: > Reasons why I am currently migrating away from AoE to iSCSI (*sigh*): > > 1. Disk alignment between Xen VMs and the target. What do you mean by that? Lars ---

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-24 Thread Tracy Reed
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 03:50:33PM +, Jeff Sturm spake thusly: > (AoE multipath really demonstrates the advantages of a simple > protocol--there's nothing involved in making it work other than plugging in > additional interfaces.) Agree completely. Simplicity has always been one of the primary

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-24 Thread Jeff Sturm
> -Original Message- > From: Lars Täuber [mailto:taeu...@bbaw.de] > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 3:52 AM > > Thanks to this thread I just recognized, that the vanilla kernel driver got > stuck at > version 47. While the coraid driver version is 79. > We used opensuse and now are using ubu

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-24 Thread Lars Täuber
Hi there! Am Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:25:37 + Jeff Sturm schrieb: [...] > They should have merged the module updates into the upstream kernel. Yes. That's my opinion too. Thanks to this thread I just recognized, that the vanilla kernel driver got stuck at version 47. While the coraid driver ver

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-23 Thread Jeff Sturm
> -Original Message- > From: Joshua J. Kugler [mailto:jos...@azariah.com] > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 5:54 PM > > > http://www.typinganimal.net/wp/2012/04/16/red-hat-just-doesnt-get-aoe > > Sounds like Coraid needs to build an RPM package that takes care of the > deficiencies > noted

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-23 Thread Gavin Carr
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 01:54:28PM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: >On Monday, April 23, 2012, Tracy Reed elucidated thus: >> Here's a good blog article on some of the current problems with AoE >> that are killing its adoption and therefore utility to potential >> Coraid customers: >> >> http://www.

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-23 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday, April 23, 2012, Tracy Reed elucidated thus: > Here's a good blog article on some of the current problems with AoE > that are killing its adoption and therefore utility to potential > Coraid customers: > > http://www.typinganimal.net/wp/2012/04/16/red-hat-just-doesnt-get-aoe > / Sounds

[Aoetools-discuss] AoE blog article

2012-04-23 Thread Tracy Reed
Here's a good blog article on some of the current problems with AoE that are killing its adoption and therefore utility to potential Coraid customers: http://www.typinganimal.net/wp/2012/04/16/red-hat-just-doesnt-get-aoe/ -- Tracy Reed pgpHVHTwd28x9.pgp Description: PGP signature -