[DRBD-user] Question about using DRBD

Milind Dumbare milind at linsyssoft.com
Tue Sep 12 12:41:26 CEST 2006

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On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:29 +0200, KOZMAN Balint wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Tony's Linux wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > I want to use drbd for Samba and Samba already sits on /var/lib/samba in SuSe
> > 10.1.
> > I created a new partition /dev/hda6 which i would like to use for Samba only.
> > A few qusestion come to mind:
> >
> > 1. What happens if there are already some files in that
> > directory,ie., /var/lib/samba ?
> 
> Well, nothing until /var/lib/samba and /dev/hda6 have nothing in common.
> Once you decide to use /dev/hda6 as part of a drbd array, you will need
> to mount /var/lib/samba there. But you will never need to access /dev/hda6
> directly, as drbd will hide the underlying devices, so you'll want to
> mount the "upper" drbd device.
> 
> > 2. Will drbd handle files which are already in that directory ?  Or do i have
> > to back it up and then copied it into the directory ?
> 
> Definetly not. Before creating a drbd md, take care of backuping your data
> first.
> 
What about external metadata? That wont really distroy the existing
data. You will just have to be aware that. The machine with important
data is SyncSource in syncing.

> 
> Cheers,
> Balint
> 
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