[DRBD-user] How to turn a logical volume into a drbd device?

Florian Haas florian.haas at linbit.com
Thu Jul 2 11:51:10 CEST 2009

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


On 2009-07-02 11:27, Rainer Sokoll wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:36:50AM +0200, Florian Haas wrote:
> 
>> Why are you doing a dd from on device to another? You could have just
>> extended your LV slightly to make room for your metadata, then simply
>> convert to a DRBD device in-place.
> 
> But I guess if I want internal metadata, "drbdadm create-md" will
> destroy any data on the LV?

What makes you think so?

Florian

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