[DRBD-user] drbd and lvm

Baldur Norddahl bbn-drbd at clansoft.dk
Fri Mar 19 20:07:21 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.


Quoting Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com>:

> > 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 :)

Ok will you be able to upgrade from 0.6 without downtime (except for the time a
failover takes that is)? Just curious, a short planned downtime would probably
be ok for this project.

Baldur

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