[DRBD-user] Partition being synced must be on its own LVM volume?

Andreas Kurz andreas at hastexo.com
Thu Jun 21 23:48:06 CEST 2012

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


On 06/21/2012 11:10 PM, Keith Christian wrote:
> In previous DRBD installations, a separate physical (e.g. non-LVM)
> partition was kept in sync with DRBD.  This partition was, say,
> /dev/sda3 and was mounted on a /data directory in /etc/ha.d/
> haresources.
> 
> While planning this for a new LVM based install, it occurs to me that
> the partition that is mounted on /data must be a separate Logical
> Volume.
> 
> Currently, /data resides in the same logical volume that hosts /.
> 
> Am I correct in thinking that when DRBD starts, it would sync not only
> /data, but everything else in / too, including /root, /var, /home,
> etc.?  I don't see how it wouldn't.
> 
> So it appears I'll have to create a separate logical volume and mount
> /data on it as in the past.
> 
> Sound reasonable, DRBD people?

yes ... DRBD does block-level replication.

Regards,
Andreas

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