Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Stefan Seifert-4 wrote: > > On Sunday, 05. April 2009, Niels Piersma wrote: >> We are looking for a solution to migrate an existing disk/volume >> (LVM/ext3) >> to DRBD cluster. >> >> Unfort. during the cluster installation process we need to "zero out" the >> device... which probably would kill our current data. We have no room to >> resize the partion (sorry, design mistake) and don't really want to >> backup >> / transfer all the data first. >> >> Is there a way to "inject" the current lvm/ext3 into DRBD WITHOUT >> "touching" (distructivly) the disk/volume? > > If you want to use internal meta data, just shrink the file system on your > lv > (not the lv itself). Otherwise just use external meta data. No need to > zero > out the device in any case. > > Regards, > Stefan > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > > Stefan, Thanks for the info, to summarize so we "could" slam in a USB stick for the metadata and the just "reuse" the current data partition. (OpenFiler storage btw). Atleast this gives us something to work with. We'll give it a try in our "test lab". Cheers. Niels -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Migrating-to-Cluster-tp22891611p22922675.html Sent from the DRBD - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.