[DRBD-user] DRBD Setup not working as expected

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Jan 30 22:01:05 CET 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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/ 2004-01-30 15:37:09 -0400
\ Norm Dressler:
> Hi there,
> 
> Prepping two new servers.  Both Dual Xeon P-4's with two Adaptec IDE
> RAID (2400A) controllers.  On each I have 4 hard drives, and in hardware
> set up two RAID-1's.  They look like /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1.  Each
> contains a partition that is the full size of the disk.
> 
> I am running Mandrake 9.2.  Installed the kernel sources and created a
> custom SMP kernel.  The compile of the drbd module worked without a
> problem. I can install the drbd module into the kernel and see that two
> new devices are created under /dev -- /dev/nb0 and /dev/nb1.

"and see that two new devices are created" sounds like devfs,
which is standard on Mandrake anyways, iirc.

but then it is not /dev/nb0 but /dev/nbd/0 !

?


	Lars Ellenberg



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