> Is anybody aware of a journalling nbd, which keeps track of unsynced
> changes, so a fast reintegration is possible?
>
> Well perhaps this is a property of the md device, instead... hmm. Is there
> such a function available? Could be some left over from snapshot code.
Assuming that you use raid1 over nbd, you could try Peter T Breuer's patches
for raid1 (called fr1) that allow the use of a bitmap for resyncing. I am
also currently working on expanding on his patches to make the bitmap
persistent (stored in a file) and to allow asynchronous writing to the
"backup" (in this case, nbd) device.
Stay tuned...more details on linux-raid about this...
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