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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear Mr. Corey and Mr. Lars,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thank you for your fast response, it
was definitely clarifying. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I was able to set my first DRBD with
my LVS. But I have some more questions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Suppose
I mounted my drbd drive on the primary node using <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>mount /dev/drbd/0
/tmp/drbd<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>then I moved my
webpage into drbd using:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>cp /var/www
/tmp/drbd <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Finally, I make a
soft link to the replicated webpage using<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ln –s /tmp/drbd
/var/www<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The question is how
to do this automatically, and how to do the same thing on the secondary node so
it does the mounting when taking over.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A
second question, in case you have an LVS with a pool of identical real
servers that use drbd, I would like all real server to have the same image
of the block device. The question is who to do the same steps on the real
servers while they are all in secondary state to make use of the
replicated data simultaneously.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks again<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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