gmirror: DIRTY flag?
Ivan Voras
ivoras at fer.hr
Sat Sep 18 14:48:27 PDT 2004
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> You use ggate as one of your mirror components? Nice:)
Indeed very nice. Not a single problem so far. :)
> If you export this device over slow link, you can considern changing
> balance algorithm to 'prefer', so only local component will be used for
> reading.
Yes, I tried several algorithms. This is on a test bench machines, and
both the disks and network are very slow (udma33, 100mbit E.). The
'load' algorithm actually seems to work best in this setup. In a month
or so we're planning to implement this on some beefy hardware, and I'll
test it more then. (If anybody's interested, I'll post some "benchmark"
results ;) ).
> Remember, that 'prefer' algorithm is based on priority, so in your case
> ggate0 will be used for reading as component with bigger priority.
I was wondering about that: is bigger priority assigned to smaller or
bigger number? The way I've expected it, since command line goes like this:
# gmirror label myname device1 [device2...]
I've expected that device1 would have bigger priority (semantically
speaking).
> Priority is also important for synchronization. If you have power
> failure, component with the biggest priority will be used as a master
> component, and all the rest components synchronize to him.
What if the master fails? :) I'm expecting this: When device1 fails, I
deactivate it from the mirror, (at this time device2 becomes master) and
insert another (will it automagically gain priority 3 or I'll need to
specify it?). The mirror resynchronises (transferring everything from
device2 to the newly inserted one, thus killing the bandwidth for
applications?), and device2 keeps the master status.
> Command for changing priority for running mirror is missing, but you
> can increase priority for local component by doing:
>
> # gmirror remove netmirror ad2s1e
> # gmirror insert -p 2 netmirror ad2s1e
>
Ok. Since this is a test setup, it really isn't a problem to tear down
and rebuild the mirror. Which leads to another question:
Is it ok to rebuild mirrors and change device orders/priorities? E.g. if
I do:
# gmirror label myname device1 device2
# gmirror stop myname
# gmirror label myname device2 device1
... nothing extraordinary is supposed to happen?
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