Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Poyner, Brandon wrote: > I can't answer if you're using drbd in a supported manner, but it > doesn't seem unusual to me. If you give the drbd device to a virtual > machine to use as a raw block device, the virtual machine will treat it > like any other block device (e.g.: hard drive). Back on the Dom0 host > if you examine the contents of the drbd device you'll see the partition > layout. This matches what you're seeing except I don't know why your > swap partition isn't showing. Oh I just missed copying the last line of fdisk -l. Sorry. Regards Dominik > I take advantage of this to make disaster recovery backups of some > virtualized DomU Windows hosts (using Xen, not KVM). I make an LVM > snapshot of the drbd device on the Dom0 host, use kpartx on the snapshot > to create the device files that map to the partitions inside the > snapshot, and then ntfsclone the partitions inside. > > Brandon Poyner > Network Engineer III > CCAC - College Office > 412-237-3086 > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user- >> bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Dominik Klein >> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:56 AM >> To: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com >> Subject: [DRBD-user] Partitioning a drbd device >> >> Hi >> >> I'm looking at kvm virtualisation and the pretty nice virt-manager. >> Thanks Florian for making me look into it! :) >> >> So while setting up a kvm on top of a drbd device, the setup process >> partitioned the drbd device into root and swap partitions. >> >> # fdisk -l /dev/drbd2 >> Disk /dev/drbd2: 32.2 GB, 32211234816 bytes >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3916 cylinders >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >> Disk identifier: 0x09fffa0f >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/drbd2p1 1 3916 31455238+ 83 Linux >> >> I talked to Brian Hellman on IRC and he (quoting Lars) sort of said it >> was not possible to partition a drbd device so I am pretty confused >> here. Didn't I just do that? >> >> So what I'd like to know is whether this is a supported setup and >> considered save to do/use. >> >> Searching for "partition drbd" was not exactly helpful as you might >> imagine. >> >> Thanks in advance >> Dominik >> _______________________________________________ >> drbd-user mailing list >> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com >> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >