Sorry to revisit this issue, and maybe it should be obtusely clear and simple to everyone,<br><br>but I'm trying to understand how this works, in very detailed terms,<br>in regards to drbd.conf and using meta-disk with or without using "internal"
<br><br>our current method-<br>install DRBD, setup drbd.conf as:<br><br> device /dev/drbd0;<br> disk /dev/cciss/c0d1;<br> address <a href="http://10.10.1.1:7788">10.10.1.1:7788</a>;<br> meta-disk internal;<br>
<br>device /dev/drbd1;<br>
disk /dev/cciss/c0d2;<br>
address <a href="http://10.10.1.1:7789">10.10.1.1:7789</a>;<br>
meta-disk internal;<br><br>/dev/cciss/c0d1 and c0d2 are "raw" drives - not partitions.<br>we don't use makefs or anything like that.<br><br>once we have /dev/drbd0 and drbd1 we use makefs to create a reiserfs filesystem on that
<br>and mount /dev/drbd0 and drbd1 to our mount points.<br><br>It seems we still have issues of drbd trying to write beyond the end of the disk.<br><br>I'm still not sure this is correct. I'm wondering if we should be doing this instead:
<br>create a 300MB partition as reiserfs (?) called c0d1p0 and setup drbd.conf like this:<br><br>device /dev/dev/drbd0<br>disk /dev/cciss/c0d1p1<br>address <a href="http://10.10.1.1:7788">10.10.1.1:7788</a>;<br>meta-disk /dev/cciaa/c0d1p0[0]
<br><br>device /dev/dev/drbd1<br>
disk /dev/cciss/c0d1p2<br>
address <a href="http://10.10.1.1:7789">10.10.1.1:7789</a>;<br>
meta-disk /dev/cciaa/c0d1p0[1]<br>
<br>but technically c0d1p1 or c0d1p2 won't exist at this point, it's the remainder of the drives.<br><br>This is a bit confusing to me as to what the proper method is for this.<br>using "raw" disk the documentation stating to "shrink" the file system doesn't apply. You can't shrink raw disk...
<br><br>can we get some low-level "step by step" documentation from setting up the raw disks, partitions, with exact command-lines that should be used.<br><br>Sorry again, I know this seems obtuse.<br><br>Dan.<br>