Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Tom Brown <tbrown at baremetal.com> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Kristinn Soffanias Runarsson wrote: > > Yeah I could do pvmove, that is what I will be using on machines that are >> using LVM. But most of them are just using plain devices. And LVM >> doesn't >> support non-destructive import of a device into LVM (but Solaris SVM does >> :) >> and I've had good results with that :) >> >> so drbd out of the question? :) >> > > I have no idea. I don't know how you're consuming the storage, whether you > can tolerate a reboot or two, whether this is the root filesystem of a > device that is literally booting off it (as compared to a virtual machine > using it for /). > > MD _might_ be able to help. You can build a mirror of an existing device, > but you need to be able to tell your storage "consumer" to switch from using > /dev/sda1 to /dev/md0 ... same as you would for drbd. The only real > difference between using drbd and md is that drbd wants to sync to a remote > server. MD wants to sync two local devices... but one or both of those could > be network attached storage. lookup mdadm (the build option) if that seems > interesting. > > That said, I've neither done this, nor do I have time to test it. > > -Tom > Yeah I can survive a few reboots, but not lengthy outages. As far as MD is concerned.. it cannot consume a device that already contains data without destroying it. soffi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20090424/cd2ba138/attachment.htm>