Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Philipp Reisner wrote: > Hi, > > The new feature to highlight is the bitmap compression: > > For big devices replicated via rather low bandwidth links, > the time for the bitmap exchange gets non negligible. You as > administrator will notice this, because DRBD freezes all > application IO during bitmap exchange i.e. during a phase > while establishing a connection. > > From now on you can enable bitmap compression "use-rle" and > the bitmap will be compressed before exchange, speeding up > that process by a very large factor 100 - many thousand. > > We started a new effort to get DRBD merged into Linux mainline. The > result of that cleanup work was merged back into DRBD mainline. > -> The patch between 8.3.1 and 8.3.2 will touch nearly every line. thank you all for your great work! cheers, raoul -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. r.bhatia at ipax.at Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. office at ipax.at 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________