[DRBD-user] Quick Sync Option

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2004-06-22T15:59:15,
   Jason Gray <jgray at bardelanimation.com> said:

> The only reason I ask is that I have large arrays (2TB) and it takes 3-4 
> days to re-sync.

The 0.6.x release will already do a QuickSync if only the secondary went
down (and the primary stayed up); in that case, only the modified blocks
will be synced.

With 0.7.x, drbd does (after a recommended initial fullsync) always only
sync the changed data, regardless of which side went down. This will
greatly speed up your larger arrays and be faster than rsync, even - as
the system knows which blocks are dirty and doesn't have to go looking
for them.


Sincerely,
	Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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