Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2004-05-31 07:56:39 +0200 \ Paolo Morandi: > Lars Ellenberg wrote: > >/ 2004-05-30 10:03:26 +0200 > >\ Paolo Morandi: > > > >>Is my first installation of drbd. > >>I use the latest stable version of drbd: 0.6.12. > >>I have followed the howto instruction and drbd work, but have this > >>problem: > >>at any startup of drbd it go in SyncingAll status. The filesystem in > >>replication is very large (70Gb) and so, for sync, need 20h. > >>After the sync the filesystem are not mounted. > > > > > >http://www.drbd.org/drbd-article.html#when_synchronization_is_needed > > > > Sorry, another very important question: > during the alignment it is possible mount the filesystem on the primary > machine and work? yes, with drbd-0.6 you can use the sync source during synchronization. which is explicitly stated in that article. which btw can be found in the documentation directory of the drbd cvs/tgz, too. with drbd-0.7 you can even use the sync-target during synchronization, but this is not recommended, since it is much less robust wrt network hickups... Lars Ellenberg