Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:29 +0200, KOZMAN Balint wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Tony's Linux wrote: > > > hi, > > > > I want to use drbd for Samba and Samba already sits on /var/lib/samba in SuSe > > 10.1. > > I created a new partition /dev/hda6 which i would like to use for Samba only. > > A few qusestion come to mind: > > > > 1. What happens if there are already some files in that > > directory,ie., /var/lib/samba ? > > Well, nothing until /var/lib/samba and /dev/hda6 have nothing in common. > Once you decide to use /dev/hda6 as part of a drbd array, you will need > to mount /var/lib/samba there. But you will never need to access /dev/hda6 > directly, as drbd will hide the underlying devices, so you'll want to > mount the "upper" drbd device. > > > 2. Will drbd handle files which are already in that directory ? Or do i have > > to back it up and then copied it into the directory ? > > Definetly not. Before creating a drbd md, take care of backuping your data > first. > What about external metadata? That wont really distroy the existing data. You will just have to be aware that. The machine with important data is SyncSource in syncing. > > Cheers, > Balint > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > > -- -Milind "There is no place like 127.0.0.1"