On 10/06/2010 10:53 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Wow, that is really short. Are you sure? I have no first hand experience
> with DRBD,
Neither do I.
> and reading that man page, I get the impression that the
> timeout us just for deciding that the TCP connection is dead. There is
> also the ko-count parameter, which defaults to zero. I would guess that
> ko-count=0 is "wait forever", while ko-count=1 is what you described,
> but I'm not sure.
Yeah, sounds more likely. Then I'm surprised that I didn't find any
warning that the Protocol C definitely reduces availability (with the
ko-count=0 default, that is). Instead, they only state that it's the
most used replication mode, which really makes me wonder. [1]
Sorry for adding confusion by not researching properly.
Regards
Markus Wanner
[1] DRDB Repliaction Modes
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide-emb/s-replication-protocols.html
