[DRBD-user] Question about using DRBD

Milind Dumbare milind at linsyssoft.com
Tue Sep 12 13:01:42 CEST 2006

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


On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:48 +0200, KOZMAN Balint wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> For sure. However the drbd device (and the underlying /dev/hda6) will
> be a new partition (regarding to Tony's mail), which actually contains
> nothing. And mounting /var/lib/samba from the new device means that he
> won't be able to access the old samba content.
ohh, ok.
> 
> And Tony hasn't mentioned whether he is willing to use 0.7 or 0.8 series.
> If it's 0.8, he will most likely need to change the filesystem used under
> /var/lib/samba.
I didn't get your point here. Why does he need to change the filesystem.
Sorry if I am missing something. :-)
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> Balint
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-Milind
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