Setting up gmirror
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Wed Oct 22 06:31:07 PDT 2008
>>> disk will be overwritten). Add another disk to this mirror, so it
>>> will
>>> be synchronized with existing disk:
>>>
>>> gmirror label -v -b round-robin data da0
>>
>> add -s <very large value> like -s 1048576 to prevent splitting one request
>> on 2 disks.
>
> I thought the -s option was only applicable when using "-b split" for the
> balancing algorithm. Does "round-robin" not mean simply alternating between
> the two disks without ever splitting requests?
no. it means for example with -s 65536 and 1MB request - it will split
this request on 2 disks
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