Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2005-09-13 15:51:53 -0500 \ Roy Keene: > All, > > Assuming I use "meta-data: internal" for both systems and both systems are of the same CPU arch, can I start > with an initial state of synchronized if I manually mirror the backing device for my two DRBD mirror components ? > > For example, if I have machine-1 and machine-2 and they each have /dev/sde1 as their backing device (and using > meta-data: internal), can I just do: > > root at machine-2# nc -l -p 5001 > /dev/sde1 < /dev/null > ... > root at machine-1# dd if=/dev/sde1 | nc machine-2 5001 < /dev/null > > and have DRBD operate correctly when started on both machines ? sure. but probably drbd sync is even faster. maybe you rather want to dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/sde1 on both boxes, may be yet an other percentage faster :) you have to do some manual tricks with the generation counters, though. easiest way would be to dd | nc those, too (while drbd is down, not even attached, best: module unloaded, just to be sure) -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schoenbrunner Str. 244, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.