[DRBD-user] DRBD on Single Node

Helmut Wollmersdorfer helmut.wollmersdorfer at gmx.at
Tue Apr 26 20:43:09 CEST 2005

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


Shane Walton wrote:

> The drbd.conf man page mentions the ability to use the
> loopback address to maintain DRBD on a single node.  I am
> referencing the disable-io-hints portion.

> I am having trouble finding a correct drbd.conf example
> that would show how to accomplish a single node setup and
> what I have tried gives me route errors when I try to start
> up DRBD.
[...]
>   on laptop {
>     device /dev/drbd0;
>     disk /dev/hda6;
>     address 192.168.0.213:7788;
>     meta-disk internal;
>   }

>   on localhost {
>      device /dev/drbd1;
>      disk /dev/hda7;
>      address 127.0.0.1:7788;
>      meta-disk internal;

No experience with such a configuration. But I would assume, that it 
will not work with IPs in different subnets without additional routing.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer



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