Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-27 Thread Cesar Peschiera
regards Cesar Peschiera - Original Message - From: "Ivan" To: "Cesar Peschiera" Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size Hi Cesar, On 10/25/2014 04:17 PM, Cesar Peschiera wrote: Hi Ivan Thanks for the link, it seem

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-25 Thread Ivan
rvers i will have running DRBD 8.4.5 version If you want to know the result of my tests, only let me know. Best regards Cesar - Original Message - From: "Meij, Henk" To: Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size a) it turns

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-25 Thread Cesar Peschiera
inbit.com] on behalf of Meij, Henk [hm...@wesleyan.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:57 AM To: Philipp Reisner; drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size Thanks for the write up y'll. I'll have to think about #3 not sure I grasp it fully. Last

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-24 Thread Felix Zachlod
looks like the backing device is not fast enough... do you use one drbd per physical device (and with physical I mean real hardware like a raid set) or are actually multiple drbd devices accessing the same disks? If the second is true try syncing the devices one after the other. please post ou

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-24 Thread Arnold Krille
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:03:13 + "Meij, Henk" wrote: > Thanks Artnold, been all over that page for 8.4 ... I have > c-max-rate=100M and resync-rate=100M (for all resources). The "want" > is ok but the actual speeds never total more than say 40M, it's like > stuck on some 30% threshold. Yet rsync

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-24 Thread Meij, Henk
24, 2014 2:27 PM To: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:12:41 + "Meij, Henk" wrote: > a) raise that limit temporarily with commandline calls (see the docs) > > if you could point me to the sub command that woul

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-24 Thread Arnold Krille
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:12:41 + "Meij, Henk" wrote: > a) raise that limit temporarily with commandline calls (see the docs) > > if you could point me to the sub command that would be great - this > is about the initial first sync for 8.3: http://www.drbd.org/users-guide-8.3/s-configure-syncer

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-24 Thread Meij, Henk
To: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:10:31 + "Meij, Henk" wrote: > a) it turns out the counter (8847740/11287100)M goes down, not up, > deh, never noticed > > b) ran plain rsync across eth0 (public, with switch

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-23 Thread Arnold Krille
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:10:31 + "Meij, Henk" wrote: > a) it turns out the counter (8847740/11287100)M goes down, not up, > deh, never noticed > > b) ran plain rsync across eth0 (public, with switches/routers) and > eth1 (nic to nic) eth0 sent 585260755954 bytes received 10367 bytes > 116690

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-23 Thread Meij, Henk
of Meij, Henk [hm...@wesleyan.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:57 AM To: Philipp Reisner; drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size Thanks for the write up y'll. I'll have to think about #3 not sure I grasp it fully. Last night I started a 12 TB test

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-23 Thread Meij, Henk
Will dig some more. -Henk From: drbd-user-boun...@lists.linbit.com [drbd-user-boun...@lists.linbit.com] on behalf of Philipp Reisner [philipp.reis...@linbit.com] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:17 AM To: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size Am Do

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-23 Thread Digimer
On 23/10/14 09:17 AM, Philipp Reisner wrote: Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2014, 08:55:03 schrieb Digimer: On 23/10/14 04:00 AM, Philipp Reisner wrote: 2a) Initialize both backend devices to a known state. I.e. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=$((1024*1024)) oflag=direct Question; Wha

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-23 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2014, 08:55:03 schrieb Digimer: > On 23/10/14 04:00 AM, Philipp Reisner wrote: > > 2a) Initialize both backend devices to a known state. > > > > I.e. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=$((1024*1024)) oflag=direct > > Question; > >What I've done in the past to spe

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-23 Thread Digimer
On 23/10/14 04:00 AM, Philipp Reisner wrote: 2a) Initialize both backend devices to a known state. I.e. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=$((1024*1024)) oflag=direct Question; What I've done in the past to speed up initial sync is to create the DRBD device, pause-sync, then do your 'dd i

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-23 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 18:48:38 schrieb Meij, Henk: > Hello All, new to the list but not drbd. We currently run a few very small > drbd setups. > > > > We are planning on moving our "research computing storage" to drbd. This > would be 4 integrated server/storage modules grouped in 2 d

[DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-22 Thread Meij, Henk
Hello All, new to the list but not drbd. We currently run a few very small drbd setups. We are planning on moving our "research computing storage" to drbd. This would be 4 integrated server/storage modules grouped in 2 drbd pairs on CentOS. Each drbd unit will have 112 TB usable storage ar