Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
We are using drbd on top of LVM 1 to replicate an LVM partition, and it seems to work fine. Also our (external) meta data device is an LVM device. Regards alex linux 2.4.24 + drbd 0.7.5 + LVM 1 (not patched, what's in the kernel tree) On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 08:50, Marc Cousin wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use LVM 1.0 + DBRB on my servers, and have questions about it : > From what I've read, it seems that it is impossible to use LVM 1 on top of > DRBD (this could be done with LVM2 thanks to the lists of device one can give > it in the configuration file). > > Technically, where does this impossibility come from ? > > To ask the real question, I've taken the LVM 1.08 tools code, looked at how it > has changed from older versions in order to allow the use of NBD as PVs, and > duplicated the work to use DBRD as PVs. My real question is to know if it is > crazy to do so (patch the LVM tools, even if the patch is only a few lines, > very close to copy n paste) and if the whole thing is going to crash in a few > hours (it works great for now, we've done lots of test and DRBD is amazing). > > We don't want to use DRBD on top of LVs as it seems way too complicated to > manage (resizes, snapshots, etc ...), and easy to forget to add the DRBD on a > freshly created LV. I want it as simple as possible as I'm not the one who > will maintain the servers (dozens of servers), and some of them will have to > be resized very often (the development machines). > > Cheers > > Marc Cousin > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user -- aXs GUARD has completed security and anti-virus checks on this e-mail (http://www.axsguard.com)