FW: [DRBD-user] DRBD installation problems

[Alex Vrenios]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of 
> Patrick Jaromin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:51 AM
> To: 'Alex Vrenios'; drbd-user at linbit.com
> Subject: RE: [DRBD-user] DRBD installation problems
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: drbd-user-bounces at linbit.com 
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> > On Behalf Of Alex Vrenios
> > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 5:17 PM
> > To: drbd-user at linbit.com
> > Subject: RE: [DRBD-user] DRBD installation problems
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just posted an answer to the same question, because I had 
> the same 
> > problem and solved it. (At least I think I did!)
> > 
> > First, I have 0.7.10 on a Redhat 9 pair and I dedicated two 
> 4G drives 
> > to DBRD, one added to each PC at /dev/hdd. I made two partitions on 
> > each: 3G and 1G defined as /dev/hdd1 and /dev/hdd2, 
> respectively. Then I issued:
> > 
> > root# drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 disk /dev/hdd1 /dev/hdd2 1
> > 
> > where /dev/hdd1 is my "resource file" that I want DRBD to mirror, 
> > dev/hdd2 is the "meta data" file that DRBD uses to track mirroring, 
> > and 1 (the number
> > one) is the index number that seems to work. (Someone here 
> recommended 
> > using -1,but that was an invalid choice according to the drbdsetup 
> > command. 1 works, but 2 doesn't - I have no idea what this means.)
> 
> 
> If you choose to use the "internal" metadata device, the 
> correct index is -1. 
> 
> > 
> > More (not all) info on meta data file sizes and use can be found in 
> > the man page for drbdsetup: "man drbdsetup" works on my PC 
> under RH9.
> > 
> > Finally, after the drbdsetup command above, I issue:
> > 
> >    root# mkfs -b 3072 /dev/drbd0
> > 
> >    root# cd /; mkdir /data
> > 
> >    root# mount /dev/drbd0 /data
> > 
> >    root# chmod 777 /data
> > 
> > After these commands, I add "/etc/init.d/drbd   start" to 
> my rc.local
> > 
> 
> I would suggest not putting the startup in the rc.local file. 
> This would require you to add any future services that rely 
> on drbd to the rc.local file as well. 
> 
Having the start command in rc.local was suggested by the articles/docs for
Heartbeat. My goal is to run HA pair without having to buy an external
storage device. (This is for a class on clustering.)

(And I really don't mind adding other commands to rc.local. If I am
designing a system that is dedicated to a "family" of applications, like
DRBD, Heartbeat, etc., then rc.local seems a good place for their
initialization to be.)

Alex