Re: Randomization in hastd(8) synchronization thread

2011-05-23 Thread Maxim Sobolev
On 5/21/2011 8:57 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: Hmm, hastd keeps separate bitmap for synchronization. It is stored in am_syncmap field. Blocks that are dirtied during regular writes should not effect on synchronization bitmap and synchronization progress. Possibly, but this policy is not very

Re: Randomization in hastd(8) synchronization thread

2011-05-21 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:39:19PM -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Hi Pawel, > > I am trying to use hastd(8) over slow links and one problem is > apparent right now - current approach with synchronizing content > sequentially is not working in this case. What happens is that hastd > hits the first f

Randomization in hastd(8) synchronization thread

2011-05-17 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi Pawel, I am trying to use hastd(8) over slow links and one problem is apparent right now - current approach with synchronizing content sequentially is not working in this case. What happens is that hastd hits the first frequently updated block and cannot make any progress anymore. In my ca

Making hastd working over WAN links (was: Randomization in hastd(8) synchronization thread)

2011-05-17 Thread Maxim Sobolev
On 5/17/2011 1:28 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote: The next thing to make it usable is to make "async" mode working. I think simple support for that mode can be easily implemented by not sending write request to the remote note at all, but instead just doing it locally and kicking the synchronization thr

Randomization in hastd(8) synchronization thread

2011-05-17 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi Pawel, I am trying to use hastd(8) over slow links and one problem is apparent right now - current approach with synchronizing content sequentially is not working in this case. What happens is that hastd hits the first frequently updated block and cannot make any progress anymore. In my ca