Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
David wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to run the root filesystem on DRBD? > > Thanks, > David. Hi, 1) The root filesystem of the secondary machine needs to be different from the primary (i.e. the secondary machine needs to be booted with different ip addresses/names etc), so for e.g. a high availability setup this doesn't make sense. 2) If you did have the root filesystem mirrored via DRBD, I'm not sure how you'd go about booting the machine to start with (unless you mount -o remount it somehow most of the way through bootup). You're normally best off using DRBD on a seperate partition (e.g. /dev/hdb2 (/var/spool/something)) as then you can access the data at the same place on both machines, after a failover, without having to reconfigure anything (a typical active/standby style configuration). Hope that helps, David. -- David Goodwin w: http://www.clocksoft.com e: david.goodwin at clocksoft.com t: 0121 313 3850 intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com)