Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 05/03/2010 07:26 PM, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been reading and trying out drbd for the last 3 days. I know this > may sounds a bit crazy, but... here goes: I realy need to drbd my "/" > block device. > > I have a basic understanding of drbd and most examples I've seen so far > point to drbd'ing a specific partition apart from the "core" OS > partitions like "/", "/var"; > > I don't know if drbd'ing the "/" partition is acutally an impossibility > "just because" or if there are ways to work around this and make the > kernel be able to boot the drbd and mount the root filesystem on it. > > Like I said: I really don't know if this is a simple thing or a very > complex workaround or even totally impossible. > > My problem is simple: boss want's it :) Virtualize. What your boss _really_ wants is probably a fully highly available server. So, stuff everything that needs to be highly available into a virtual machine, slap that VM image onto a Pacemaker cluster whose storage is DRBD backed, use the VirtualDomain agent, and you're good to go. Cheers, Florian