[DRBD-user] Compression in DRBD

Jeronimo Zucco jczucco at ucs.br
Wed Mar 7 18:18:13 CET 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


    You also can use drbd in an openvpn tunnel with zlib compression 
without encryption (to solve performances issues).

komal escreveu:
> Hi all,
>           Bandwidth is an important issue in DRBD during replication of
> data. If bandwidth is properly utilized then replication will be faster
> and speed is what everyone needs.
> 	When bandwidth utilization comes into picture, compressing data is what
> is needed. Earlier discussions were going on to use vtun with a tcp
> tunnel with zlib compression factor 9 or so to achieve compression.
> 	What about implementing compression in DRBD itself. Like using zlib to
> compress each packet and decompress it on receiver side in DRBD code
> itself rather than using vtun and all. Wont it solve the purpose? 
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Komal Nawandar.
>
>
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