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