Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50:30AM +0100, Kai Stian Olstad wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm setting up a file server cluster with SLES 10, DRBD 8.2.7, LVM2, >> Samba 3.2.8 and Heartbeat 2.1.4. >> The DRBD resources is master/slave (ocf/heartbeat). >> >> In this configuration it will be multiple DRBD resources that are >> added to the same volume group in LVM. > > you mean these are PVs of a VG made from multiple DRBD? > > you are aware that we recommend against such a setup, > as long as we cannot provide write ordering accross multiple DRBD. Yes, they are PVs of one VG made multiple DRBDs. The reason for this is that our SAN doesn't support increasing the size of a disk, so we have to add a new one. I'm not aware that you doesn't recommend this setup. I probably overlooked it in the documentation. What is the recommended solution in this kind of setup? Is it LVM -> DRBD -> LVM? -- Kai Stian Olstad