Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
http://linux-vserver.org/Vserver+DRBD looks promising, since 90% of the changes will be made in the vservers on the node The HowTo tells how to give a vserver its own partition, and use drbd to keep this in sync over 2 nodes. Would it also work to mount the DRBD device as /var/lib/vservers, instead of /var/lib/vservers/<vserver-name> , and hereby take all vservers in 1 go? Regards, Evert Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Evert Meulie wrote: > >> Now I would like to use DRBD to make these 2 systems completely >> identical to each other, including root & boot partitions. Can DRBD >> help me out here? 8-) > > > 'Completely' is not possible, and I would not like it. > > Think about the content of /proc, or hardware/kernel related messages in > /var/log. > > The only possibility (which I know) to fully sync a root / is, to run it > as a guest in XEN or vserver. This means having DRBD and the cluster > manager running in the host, and booting the guest at failover. > > See > http://linux-vserver.org/Vserver+DRBD > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-06/msg00215.html > > IMHO there should be a serious need for virtualization. Just syncing the > installed packages and the configuration is _not_ a serious reason. > > Helmut Wollmersdorfer