Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 12:12:10PM +0000, Ron O'Hara wrote: > A quick question about meta-disk internal in 0.7 ... > > If I have a device (/dev/md5) of 500Mb do I have to deliberately make > the file system (ext3) smaller by the 128Mb of the meta-disk ? Yes. Though, if you mkfs /dev/nbd/X, which is what you should do, the mkfs already sees the correct disksize, and will behave correctly. So to setup a NEW filesystem on top of drbd, I recommend to write the config file, then drbdadm up your-resource drbdadm primary your-resource mkfs -t whatever [... parameters ...] /dev/nbd/X If you want to put DRBD below an *existing* filesystem, and you want *internal* meta data, you have to resize (shrink) the filesystem first. Lars Ellenberg