[Linux-HA] New file server

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2004-06-03T18:36:10,
   Lars Ellenberg <l.g.e at web.de> said:

> anyways, think of a 3.8 TB device.
> if you want to *esure* that they are binary identical,
> for a new setup, it is *much* faster to do a
>  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/lower_level_device bs=1M
> on both nodes, then setup drbd, make one node
> primary, and create a file system on top of it,
> than to have all those 3.8 TB go over the network,
> even though the don't contain any information.
> 
> so I don't think to enforce an initial sync is that brilliant...

Right, but it should be the default, and smart people then get to
override / bypass it ;-)


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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