[DRBD-user] 14TB storage with drbd82

Steve Wray steve.wray at cwa.co.nz
Tue Jul 29 03:21:33 CEST 2008

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Andrei Neagoe wrote:
> Actually... I'm using the same thing. If you look at pvscan output 
> you'll see that all 7 drbd devices are assigned to ftp VG. As a 
> filesystem I'm using xfs, online growing starting with drbd resizing, 
> lvextend and finally the xfs_grow works perfectly (and really really 
> fast). The thing is that in the future, if I want to expand the size and 
> add an exp3000 to the existing setup, I'll need to create at least 4 
> more drbd devices to support that and I don't know what the device limit 
> is (if any except memory consideration).

I really hope that you never have to run xfs_check on this... and that 
if you do you have a terabyte or more of memory...

xfs_check requires very very large amounts of RAM.




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