[DRBD-user] DRBD + LVM2 Setup on RHEL5.1

Florian Haas florian.haas at linbit.com
Tue Mar 25 09:08:05 CET 2008

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


On Friday 21 March 2008 08:43:34 Florian Haas wrote:
> > What device is /dev/drbd/r0? Most block devices in RHEL are going to be
> > /dev/sd[a-d] (SCSI or SATA) or /dev/hd[a-d] (IDE).
>
> Ouch, I hadn't realized that part of the user's guide was so easily
> misunderstood.
>
> resource r0 {
>   ...
>   on alice {
>     device /dev/drbd0;
>     disk   /dev/drbd/r0;
>     ...
>   }
>   on bob {
>     device /dev/drbd0;
>     disk   /dev/drbd/r0;
>     ...
>   }
> }
>
> This means the backing devices are LVM logical volumes named "r0" in a
> Volume Group named "drbd". It says so in the text above the config snippet,
> but apparently that is easily overlooked.
>
> I will change this to a generic foo/bar "naming convention" to avoid
> confusion.

Done. http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-lvm-lv-as-drbd-backing-dev.html

Cheers,
Florian

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