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, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:10:40PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Hello,
> Do I understand DRBD not correctly?
>
> With it, one can create a RAID-1-like array on remote machines.
>
> So with this config file:
>
> global { usage-count yes; }
> common { syncer { rate 10M; } }
> resource r0 {
> protocol C;
> net {
> cram-hmac-alg sha1;
> shared-secret "FooFunFactory";
> }
> on san2 {
> device /dev/drbd1;
> disk /dev/mapper/san2-swap_1;
> address 192.168.111.46:7789;
> meta-disk internal;
> }
> on laptok {
> device /dev/drbd1;
> disk /dev/sda5;
> address 192.168.111.48:7789;
> meta-disk internal;
> }
> }
>
>
> I should create a filesystem on /dev/drbd1, as "disk" contains some drbd
> metadata, right?
Right.
> Unfortunately, it fails:
>
> # fdisk /dev/drbd1
>
> Unable to open /dev/drbd1
> What am I doing wrong?
Make sure that resource r0 is in primary state on that node.
Regards,
Kupson
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