Archive for August 2008

DRDB and link compression

Recently I was setting up DRBD (in short: “block devices designed as a building block to form high availability (HA) clusters”) between two data centers.

DRBD doesn’t apply any form of compression on the data that is replicated; is it a good idea to enable compression in the VPN link if you replicate your data with DRBD over Internet? Here is a quick test.

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