Bernd, The ENBD project requires a kernel patch for 2.6 support and I would like to remain with the vendor supplied (and "blessed" kernel) for support reasons. Since I cannot provide feedback on the latest version of the kernel and I don't want to have an "unblessed" kernel, I've opened a ticket with RedHat attached to my support contract for this problem. I mainly posted my question here to see if this was a known issue with 2.6 in general or NBD-specific. I had not heard of "DRBD" before now, but it looks interesting. I am looking into it further. Thanks, Roy Keene On Tue, 31 May 2005, Bernd Schubert wrote: > Hello Roy, > > Roy Keene wrote: > >> Hello, >> >>   I have a (well, at least one) show-stopping problems with the 2.6 >> kernel while doing heavy I/O.  I have a (software) RAID1 of network block >> devices (nbd0 and nbd1) set up on two identical machines in an > > what about using drbd or enbd? AFAIK both are much better tested/suited for > network raid. > > Cheers, >  Bernd > > > -- > Bernd Schubert > PCI / Theoretische Chemie > Universität Heidelberg > INF 229 > 69120 Heidelberg > e-mail: bernd.schubert@pci.uni-heidelberg.de >