[DRBD-user] MAX DRBD DEVICES

Matthias Böttcher matthias.boettcher at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 11:20:56 CET 2008

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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2008/12/17 Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:58:01PM +0100, Maciej Bogucki wrote:
>>
>>> With this setup you need hardware of at least 4 physical machines, but
>>> because of the machine (host) independent storage (iSCSI targets on
>>> the redundant storage server) you are free to run and to switch the
>>> Xen-DomU's on the physical Xen-Servers.
>>>
>>>
>> You need only two phicycal servers at the setup. iSCSI target and client
>> could be on the same machine.
>
> don't do that. really.
> has deadlock potential.

Where ist the deadlock potential?

And if I remember correctly, it was said not to run LVM on top of DRBD
on top of LVM.
Is that correct?

With best regards
Matthias Böttcher


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