[DRBD-user] Config files with heartbeat and drbd

Wolfram Schlich lists at wolfram.schlich.org
Thu Mar 27 11:11:28 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.


* Gauthier DOUCHET <gauthier.douchet at gmail.com> [2008-03-27 10:00]:
> Is it a nice idea to put my /etc/mysql (or any other config directory of
> services) on my /data (my drbd partition) and to create a symlink from
> /data/etc/mysql to /etc/mysql ?

Yes, that's a very common scenario:
http://www.tummy.com/Community/software/drbdlinks/

> But I don't want to create some security problems or other things like
> that...

Why would you? As long as the config files on the drbd volume have
appropriate permissions (just like the ones on the original volume)...

Have fun!
-- 
Regards,
Wolfram Schlich <wschlich at gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/



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