[DRBD-user] secondary need mkfs also?

Corey Edwards tensai at zmonkey.org
Wed Sep 28 18:20:33 CEST 2005

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


On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 16:08 +0000, robert wrote:
> on the master computer I did
> drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 disk /dev/hdb1 internal -1
> then I made the drbd0 a primary and did
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/drbd0 so it will take care of 
> the 128 Meta data.
> 
> Do I need to mkfs.ext3 /dev/drbd0 on the slave also?

Not only do you not need to, DRBD will not allow you to. The slave will
receive its copy of the filesystem from the master. Only the master is
allowed to read or write to the device.

Corey

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