Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Sven Schuster wrote: > 1. When the secondary node is down for some time, no mirrored > hard disk is replaced, how will it be re-synced when it comes > up again?? Will a complete resync take place, or just the > changed parts of the block device? Since Version 0.7.0 only the changed parts. > If just the changed parts > are synced, how are those changed parts determined, Ther is meta-data, see 'mata-disk'. In easy words, it is a bitmap, which parts are in sync or not in sync. > and what > is the order in which those parts are synced?? Any order. It is not comparable to a collection of 'after images', where the order would be important. > 2. drbd is independent from the kind of block device which is > underneath it, right?? So, as long as the kernel itself can > use a block device, it can be used by drbd, regardless if it's > an ide drive, scsi, raid, or maybe even a ramdisk :-) Yes. And add LVM to your list. Helmut Wollmersdorfer