Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, --- Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:48:01AM -0700, Ciprian > Badescu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to use drbd for the first time and I > have > > two questions: > > > > 1. It is possible to use primary - RW/primary - RO > > with EXT3FS or other non-cluster FS? > > no. OK. I'll go then for primary/secondary, with nfs export on primary and mount on secondary. > > Right now I got "Multiple primaries not allowed by > > config"(I have not found any configuration > directive > > related to this), not even reach the point to > mount > > the FS. > > for two primaries, you'd need to > "allow-two-primaries". > but you need a cluster aware filesystem. > or you'll get scrambled data or worse sooner or > later. ok, Thanks. > > > 2. "Currently DRBD meta-data reserves 128MB". It > is > > possible to decrease that. Has anyone done that? > > there is "flexible-meta-disk" now. > "internal" is implicitly always flexible. > it will only use up as much as needed. Yes, but anyhow should exist a minimun. Or I can use drbd on, for example, 50M partition (data+meta-data)? I need to use it for ~100M, I tried an the beginning whithout success. I'll try again now and send the result(things are a little more clear for me now). Thanks, Ciprian > > -- > : Lars Ellenberg Tel > +43-1-8178292-0 : > : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax > +43-1-8178292-82 : > : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe > http://www.linbit.com : > __ > please use the "List-Reply" function of your email > client. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097