[DRBD-user] DRDB on top of resizing LVM2

Ben bench at silentmedia.com
Wed Jan 25 15:14:38 CET 2006

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Hey all. I'm about to build out a pair of Xen servers that I want to  
make HA with DRDB. What this boils down to is me having a bunch of  
LVM volumes, some of which I would like to mirror with DRDB. I'm  
still getting my bearings with LVM and with DRDB, so I'm a little  
confused. But I think this means I'm going to want to put DRDB on top  
of LVM, which, as near as I can tell from the archives, isn't a  
problem with current versions.

My big question though is what happens when I expand an LVM volume.  
How does DRDB deal with that? Do I have to expand the secondary, then  
the primary? Other way around? Do I have to expand both partitions  
before I expand either filesystem? If I ever want to shrink a  
partition, does DRDB deal with that?

Has anybody else done something similar?



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