Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Andreas Abele schrieb: > Hi, > i am quite new to drbd. So here are some maybe stupid questions: > > 1.) The 4TB Limit is as far as i understand it meant per drbd-device. Am > I right? yes > 1a) So, can i use 2 or more drbd-devices with EACH up to 4TB? yes > 2.) And ist it possible to build LVMs on top of drbd? For example: > I create 2 drbd-devices with each 4TB. And then i want to combine them > to a Volumegroup with lvm2. > means something like: > - pvcreate /dev/drbd0 /dev/drbd1 > - vgcreate data /dev/drbd0 /dev/drbd1 > - lvcreate -n shares -L 6TB data; lvcreate -n homes -L 2TB data > and the resulting vg should have 8TB. Yes, I'm doing this with 4 x 1,2 TB drbd devices. You may have to edit the filter section in your lvm.conf so that lvm doesn't detect the drbd disk devices. I accept only drbd devices in my config. filter = [ "a|/dev/drbd*|", "r|/*|" ] Ralf