[DRBD-user] Fast sync?

Vadym Chepkov vchepkov at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 16:03:03 CET 2011

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On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Martin Miels <mm at netwerk.no> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am taking first steps into cluster-territory. I have an experimental CentOS 5.5 / DRBD 8.3.10 setup which works nicely. Major kudos to Mr. Levrinc for his DRBD-MC application, btw!
>
> I haven't been able to locate information on a fast-sync method - admittedly I haven't been diving into the documentation as much as I perhaps should have. Is there any way to quickly synchronize freshly-initialized disks? On my setup that would be 2x2TB, and syncing that takes 16 hours... Is there a quicker way?
>

drbdadm -- --clear-bitmap new-current-uuid  resource-id

Keep in mind though, an array created this way wouldn't pass "drbdadm verify".

Vadym



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