Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> 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. For sure. However the drbd device (and the underlying /dev/hda6) will be a new partition (regarding to Tony's mail), which actually contains nothing. And mounting /var/lib/samba from the new device means that he won't be able to access the old samba content. And Tony hasn't mentioned whether he is willing to use 0.7 or 0.8 series. If it's 0.8, he will most likely need to change the filesystem used under /var/lib/samba. Balint