Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I vote for having this functionality in drbd too even with performance downgrade. :-) Regards, M. On 2008.3.3, at 13:27, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Is it possible to place external meta data in a file? > > Documentation states that meta-disk has to be either internal, or > should point to a block-device (if external). > > However, with more DRBD devices, creating a new block device for > each resource is a bit of an administrative burden, and sometimes, > is not possible at all. > > > Also, Linux software RAID can keep its bitmap either internally, or > in a file. > > > My little experimentation a while ago showed that DRBD won't work > with files as meta data - but maybe something changed lately (or > it's a planned feature)? > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user