[DRBD-user] root filesystem on drbd?

Helmut Wollmersdorfer helmut.wollmersdorfer at gmx.at
Tue Apr 18 20:38:43 CEST 2006

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


Alexander Skwar wrote:

> My question: Is it possible to boot from a drbd? 

If the drbd-device *is* in primary state and a filesystem *is* mounted 
on top of DRBD you can boot a virtual machine guest from it - VMware, 
XEN, linux-vserver, qemu, bochs, hercules etc.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer



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