[DRBD-user] Newbie confusion

Helmut Wollmersdorfer helmut.wollmersdorfer at gmx.at
Fri Oct 7 07:53:30 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.


Philipp Reisner wrote:

> You should only mirror the "data" partition, you can not mirror the 
> root FS with plain DRBD. (The other thing would be openSSI's DRBD, but that is
> way out of the context here.)

But it is possible to mirror the root filesystem of a guest operating 
system under XEN or vserver (or other virtualization techniques). Even 
mirroring a complete Win under VMware should be possible. For vserver 
see my (not yet completed) HOWTO http://linux-vserver.org/Vserver+DRBD.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer



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