[DRBD-user] Migration of existing partitons to drbd

Helmut Wollmersdorfer helmut.wollmersdorfer at gmx.at
Tue Jun 22 15:44:49 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Emmanuel Lacour schrieb:

> I would like to know if it's possible to add drbd on an existing device
> without loosing existing data.

Which Version of DRBD? In 0.6.x this should work without problems. In 
0.7.x you should understand the concept of "metadata internal" before doing.

> but I'm not sure this is enough to work and I don't understand how this
> could be possible???

DRBD is just a layer between the on top filesystem and the low level device.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer






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