Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 05:54:47 -0800 (PST) Bluntknife <paul_rawlinson at msn.com> wrote: > I currently have 2 Ubuntu 8.10 servers and have successfully > installed and configured DRBD and a drbd.conf file...I think. The > service runs and when I type the cmd "drbdadm up r0" I see a > connection between the 2 servers stating that the DRBD connection is > established. The problem is the connection drops almost straight away > and I think it's because I am trying to synchronise my SDA1 partition. > > I want my secondary server to be an exact clone of the primary and I > thought I could use DRBD for this. > > Should it be possible to synchronise my primary partition (the boot > and system files)? You can't 'mirror' partitions that's mounted. You have to create drbd on top of /dev/sda1 and then create filesystem on /dev/drbdX and mount /dev/drbdX, not /dev/sda1. Think of it as mdadm or lvm, where you have to use upper level (/dev/mdX or /dev/mapper/X-Y). It's the same logic, only here you have to use /dev/drbdX