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, Lars Ellenberg said: >> We have one cluster using drbds as physical volumes and I would just >> like to know what you mean with "not exactly trivial" as for now it >> works like a charm but I dont want to bump into some things I didnt >> think of in advcane later. Are there any special considerations to take >> except that one has to prevent LVM from detecting the underlying >> partitions as physical volumes? > > it is "just" remotely possible to encounter funny failure scenarios > where you might not be able to put all drbds into primary state on the > same node for whatever reasons, and thus some pvs for the upper volume > groups are missing... Ok, thanks for the hint. If I got you right those funny failures scenarios shouldnt be a problem for us anyway, as we are using exactly one drbd as a pv for each vg. As I already mentioned, it works perfectly so far. regards, Christof