[DRBD-user] drbd and lvm

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Mar 19 18:28:03 CET 2004

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


/ 2004-03-19 16:01:56 +0100
\ Baldur Norddahl:
> Hello,
> 
> I am making a proposal for a Linux HA system with two identical servers etc. I
> want to be ready for future upgrades to the harddisk system. So I want use LVM
> beneth DRBD. My hope is then if we get additional disks in the servers, that I
> can use LVM to expand the DRBD partition and have DRBD mirror the larger
> partition. All without destroying the filesystem, and preferably without
> downtime.
> 
> Will this work?

Yes. I put the link on http://www.drbd.org/faq.html
With 0.6. you will have downtime.
With 0.7 you currently won't have a stable system :)

	Lars Ellenberg



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