Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
--- Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org> wrote: > You don't understand the scenario. You already have > a working server, > without drbd, and decide to add drbd to it: > > 1. a) create metadata partition > 1. b) resize filesystem to give space to metadata > > 2. tell drbd the device is consistent. > > -> new drbd device, without data loss (and without > having to create new > partition, set drbd on it, migrate data to new drd > device). Wow, I did NOT understand that! :) That is cool, so can it go the other way too? Can I turn a drbd partition back into a normal parition? If I simply ran resizefs on the low level partition it would ovewrite the meta-data and be mountable normaly (without drbd?) > > > with a fast link, I typically see the drbd > initial > > > full sync finish slightly faster than dd would. > > > > Now I don't understand that, how is that possible? > Is > > it because drbd is running in kernel space? > > Probably because he's dd'ing sector by sector, that > is, by default, 512 > bytes. > > I usually define a bs of 1M or more. Hmm, not a good example then, right? Lars, is that really what you meant? -Martin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com