[DRBD-user] Re: Question on DRBD...

Lars l.g.e at web.de
Tue May 25 16:34:32 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


/ 2004-05-25 14:27:00 +0000
\ Burgess Dunward:
> 
> Okay, to be clear.  /dev/nb0 in the articles (ie pg 18 for seample which 
> has the line:
> 
> #mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/nb0 datadisk /dev/nb0 start
> 
> is specific to drbd not to NBD, that is I don't have to install/configure 
> NBD)

yes.
you cannot use DRBD and NBD at the same time,
*because* the use the same device numbers.

> So, do I have to do anything to make the connection to /dev/nb0 to my 
> /dev/hd*?  If not, it is not clear to me how you make the connection to a 
> specific drive.

write a drbd.conf, and use the drbd script or drbdsetup/drbdadm tools to
configure load it into the driver.

 From reading the howto and article about drbd,
this should have been obvious.

	Lars Ellenberg



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