<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Use LVM as the drbd raw device this way you have the option to re-size the LVM (mostly enlarge) without any problem.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">you can find the meta-data overhead furmula at <a href="http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ch-internals.html" style="font-family:arial">http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ch-internals.html</a></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">but the cost is very small ~ for a 60GB resource the metadata is less then 4M.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><br>--<br>
<font color="#999999" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Rabin Yasharzadehe</font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Net Warrior <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:netwarrior863@gmail.com" target="_blank">netwarrior863@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi there guys.<div><br></div><div>I'have a doubt regarding meta-disk usage, I'd like to hear the recomendations from you about that.</div><div><br></div><div>I've got some logical volumes ( LVM on linux ) which I want to replicate, this is a two node configuration, I've got some oracle database partitions and other directories containing other data.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What's not clear for me is if I have to use internal meta-disk like /dev/sda4 or to create another lvm to hold that, some guys told me to use one or another, but not a really answer, I know that I can use one or another, but do not know the risks/adventages/disadventages if any.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another thing is if there is a calculation to the size of that partition, let say, to replicate a 100GB partition the size of the metadisk should be X size.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your time and support.</div>
<div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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