Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 10:02 +0100, Leroy van Logchem wrote:
> I would create a dedicated meta-disk and configure it like this:
> ---/etc/drbd.conf sniplet---
> on host.fqdn {
> device /dev/drbd0;
> disk /dev/sda4;
> address a.b.c.d:someport;
> meta-disk /dev/sda3 [0];
> }
> ---
> Make sure that you create the meta-data partition large enough (fdisk
> +128M is just a little too small).
> Drbd will complain so you can't go wrong. The advantage of this setup is:
> -you can mount the device under drbd (ofcourse *only* do this as last
> resort) and only contains a normal filesystem.
> -clearing the meta-disk is easy (again only in case of trouble)
>
> I never had any trouble with drbd but this setup is robust imho.
[replying from home]
I thought that creating separate partitions for the might be more
complex. However, it looks very straight forward. So, I just create a
132MB partition for each drbd partition. Then I don't have to worry
about specifying a size in drbd.conf.
Thank you!
Tom