[DRBD-user] drbddisk does not mout the resource

Alan Robertson alanr at unix.sh
Tue Sep 14 20:35:40 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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Jens Grigel wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 17:24, Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
>>Jens Grigel wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 16:37, Florian Wozak wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>i'm trying to use drbd with heartbeat. Everything works fine, but the 
>>>>drbddisk script DOES NOT mount the drbd0 resource. "drbddisk drbd0 
>>>>start" changes the node correctly into primary state and a manual mount 
>>>>perfectly works (btw i'm using reiserfs).
>>>>
>>>>But I have no idea how to get the script mountig the resource.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>you have to mount the drbd device with the Filesystem script from
>>>linux-ha.
>>>
>>>Please check:
>>>http://wiki.trick.ca/linux-ha/GettingStarted_2fDRBD
>>
>>This is correct for versions of DRBD starting with 0.7. The assumption that 
>>DRBD only works for filesystems, and that it is DRBD's job to mount the 
>>filesytem went away in version 0.7.
>>
>>
>>For versions before 0.7 you have to include them in the /etc/fstab to get 
>>them mounted.
>>
>>It is true that in these older versions you *can* put in the Filesystem 
>>resource agent if you leave out the entry in /etc/fstab.  But, this causes 
>>the datadisk (note the name change) script to exit with an error.
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Alan, hi Florian,
> 
> I have no intention to lead someone the wrong way. 

Nor did I intend to imply that you had done so.  I was simply making the 
clarification in case some people are still using pre-0.7 versions.


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