Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

From: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
Date: 2010-10-06 09:11:07
Message-ID: 4CAC3D2B.5020902@bluegap.ch
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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

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