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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: John Quigley <jquigley@jquigley.com>
Cc: XFS Development <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: XFS corruption with failover
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:17:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090813231739.5c7db91d@galadriel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A8474D2.7050508@jquigley.com>

Le Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:17:22 -0500 vous écriviez:

> Any advice or insight into what we're doing wrong would be very much
> appreciated.  My apologies in advance for the somewhat off-topic
> question.

By killing abruptly the primary server while doing IO, you're probably
pushing the envelope... You may have a somewhat better luck with a
cluster fs, OCFS2 works very well for me usually (GFS is a complete
PITA to setup). 

The better option would be to disallow completely write
caching on the client side (because this is probably where it's going
wrong) however I don't know how. You can get it to flush extremely
often by playing with  /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centiseconds
and /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs, though. Safer settings
generally imply terrible performance, though, you've been warned.

Ah another thing may be some cache option in the iSCSI target. what
target are you using?  

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-13 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-13 20:17 XFS corruption with failover John Quigley
2009-08-13 21:17 ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2009-08-13 22:42   ` Felix Blyakher
2009-08-14  0:52     ` John Quigley
2009-08-14  0:50   ` John Quigley
2009-08-13 21:44 ` Felix Blyakher
2009-08-14  0:31   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-14  0:58     ` Lachlan McIlroy
2009-08-14  1:35       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-14  1:44         ` John Quigley
2009-08-14  1:06     ` John Quigley
2009-08-14 13:21     ` Felix Blyakher
2009-08-14  0:56   ` John Quigley
     [not found] <424153067.1934481250210293891.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2009-08-14  0:38 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2009-08-14  1:14   ` John Quigley
2009-08-17 18:04   ` John Quigley
     [not found] <835473717.1935811250214078456.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2009-08-14  1:43 ` Lachlan McIlroy
     [not found] <990461759.2142271250648177725.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2009-08-19  2:18 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2009-08-19 15:46   ` John Quigley
     [not found] <1194138654.75921250838215929.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2009-08-21  7:11 ` Lachlan McIlroy

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