Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 19:36:33 Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > Hi list! > > I searched the web but I only found lvm on drbd and many problems > concerning kvm or xen. I need lvm and drbd to have a flexible > file server (without xen or the like). > > If I put lvm on top of drbd I run into problems. Such as a complex > failover situation and I am limited to the physical space of a HD or > partitions. > Thus I think drbd on lvm would be better. In the end I want a > drbd- and pacemaker- based file server with nfs and cifs and iSCSI. > Plus I want to add one or more HD easily whenever needed or provide > more or less disk space for a client or a share. > > What do you think? > > Thanks for suggestions! > > Cheers, > > Oliver > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > Oliver, I put DRBD on top of LVM for one sole reason: being able to resize DRBD resources if I would ever need to. Without LVM below it, it's much riskier (see DRBD manual). I also put LVM at the same time on top of DRBD (see "nested LVM" in the DRBD manual) which works great, provided you change /etc/lvm/lvm.conf About the complex failover situation: if you have cluster software taking care of this, it should not be referred to any more as being "complex". Setting that software up might be however. Hope this helps, Bart