<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi Florian,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the answer. If I use file based block device with GFS2, is the domU configuration file still similar like this ?:</div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><pre class="programlisting" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">disk = [ 'drbd:<em class="replaceable"><code>resource</code></em>,xvda,w' ]</pre></span></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Regards</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Louis<br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Florian Haas <florian.haas@linbit.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> drbd-user@lists.linbit.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, February 10, 2011 9:00:54 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [DRBD-user] Can I use File Virtual Block Device for XEN DomU ?<br></font><br>
On 2011-02-09 19:16, <a ymailto="mailto:mailtolouis2020-forum@yahoo.com" href="mailto:mailtolouis2020-forum@yahoo.com">mailtolouis2020-forum@yahoo.com</a> wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> I've been searching the net how to setup XEN+DRBD to do the live<br>> migration. All the documents I found are telling me first to create a<br>> drbd partition, then install a VM on this partition using physical block<br>> device instead of file based block device.<br>> <br>> Is it possible using file based block device and still achieve the live<br>> migration?<br><br>Yes, if you use a shared cluster file system on top of dual-Primary<br>DRBD, or on top of an iSCSI target exported from single-Primary DRBD.<br>Examples of shared cluster file systems are OCFS2 and GFS2.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Florian<br><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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