Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2014, 08:55:03 schrieb Digimer: > On 23/10/14 04:00 AM, Philipp Reisner wrote: > > 2a) Initialize both backend devices to a known state. > > > > I.e. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=$((1024*1024)) oflag=direct > > Question; > > What I've done in the past to speed up initial sync is to create the > DRBD device, pause-sync, then do your 'dd if=/dev/zero ...' trick to > /dev/drbd0. This effectively drives the resync speed to the max possible > and ensures full sync across both nodes. Is this a sane approach? > Yes, sure that is a way to do it. (I have the impression that is something form the drbd-8.3 world.) I do not know from the top of the head if that will be faster than the built-in background resync in drbd-8.4. Best, Phil