Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 04:09 -0700, khaja mohideen wrote: > Hi, > > What would happen if i mount the 100 GB > partition(/dev/hda1) without formatting as /dev/drbd0. Bad Things(tm) would happen. Namely DRBD would not replicate any of your data and all your effort would be wasted. > In slave I would allocate the exact 100 GB size for > drbd. The slave would never see any of the data from master because you're bypassing DRBD. > Then would it solve. No, it wouldn't. This road leads only to madness. Please re-read the DRBD documentation as you don't appear to have a solid grasp on it. It *is* possible to add DRBD to an existing partition without losing data. I have done it on a number of occasions with very much mission critical data. Do yourself a favor and practice a few times before trying it for real. Corey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20060831/718213c1/attachment.pgp>