[DRBD-user] Re: Running root on DRBD

En Chiang Lee ena at india.hp.com
Mon Jan 31 05:41:53 CET 2005

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


Hi Lars,

We've got drbd-0.7.7 working with OpenSSI, and we've used it to failover 
the root file system. I've posted a tarball on www.openssi.org along 
with instructions on how to get it working.

We'll be working on making our changes cleaner and better commented.

Thanks,

En Chiang

Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:21:48PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> 
>>Per Jessen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>David wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>Is it possible to run the root filesystem on DRBD?
>>>
>>>See openssi.org.
>>
>>In particular: http://openssi.org/docs/rh/README.drbd.shtml
> 
> 
> 
> note that I know of no one that has openssi and drbd working.
> the drbd.tar mentioned on that page last time I looked closely was based
> on some drbd-0.7-pre-something, which will more or less silently corrupt
> your data. since they did not explicitly state which cvs or svn revision
> it is based on, getting a proper diff ossi-drbd <-> plain drbd is cumbersome.
> 
> so what ever was necessary to make it work^W load with ossi kernel is
> not easily seen and neither forward ported. I got the impression that
> who ever was working on drbd integration got distracted by other things.
> 
> I may be wrong of course, and they might have improved since I last
> checked, and it does work. if so, I'd love to hear some confirmation
> from someone actually running such a beast.
> 
> 
> 	Lars Ellenberg
> 
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