Re: Problem with 2.6 kernel and lots of I/O

[Roy Keene]

Bernd,

	The ENBD project requires a kernel patch for 2.6 support and I 
would like to remain with the vendor supplied (and "blessed" kernel) for 
support reasons.

	Since I cannot provide feedback on the latest version of the 
kernel and I don't want to have an "unblessed" kernel, I've opened a 
ticket with RedHat attached to my support contract for this problem.  I 
mainly posted my question here to see if this was a known issue with 2.6 
in general or NBD-specific.

	I had not heard of "DRBD" before now, but it looks interesting.  I 
am looking into it further.

Thanks,
	Roy Keene

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Bernd Schubert wrote:

> Hello Roy,
>
> Roy Keene wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >   I have a (well, at least one) show-stopping problems with the 2.6
> > kernel while doing heavy I/O.  I have a (software) RAID1 of network block
> > devices (nbd0 and nbd1) set up on two identical machines in an
>
> what about using drbd or enbd? AFAIK both are much better tested/suited for
> network raid.
>
> Cheers,
>  Bernd
>
>
> --
> Bernd Schubert
> PCI / Theoretische Chemie
> Universität Heidelberg
> INF 229
> 69120 Heidelberg
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