[DRBD-user] Any way to jump over initial sync ?

[digimer]

On 2018-08-28 12:59 PM, Julien Escario wrote:
> Hello,
> Just wanted to know : is there a way to get rid of initial sync with linstor and
> zfs backend ?
> Right now, I have a 1TB volume to create and initial sync is veeeery long.
>
> I think it's mostly due to unavailability of thinly provisionned ZFS resources
> but perhaps is there a way to suspend resync and ask the system to simply
> consider both resources as sync'ed ?
>
> Best regards,
> Julien

In 8.4, you could do 'drbdadm new-current-uuid --clear-bitmap <res>'. Be 
aware though; The bits won't match until/unless a given block is 
written. So a 'verify' will be problematic.

digimer