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 wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:34:03 Hari Sekhon wrote: > >> Has anyone used Drbd with LVM snapshots? >> >> I have lvm on top of drbd so that I can try snapshotting the contents of >> the main storage on the primary node while it has it mounted. >> >> I really want to both replicate (which is working well) and also to take >> snapshots of the main area some how. >> Can anyone tell me if what I am trying to do is completely off or if >> this can be done in another way? >> > > I have it the other way round: my drbd device is on top of an lv. Makes > resizing trivial and allows me to make snapshots for backups. Works like a > charm. > > Regards, > Stefan Your snapshots are local and not replicated then? Have you actually mounted a snapshot of a drbd device, is the filesystem operational? As far as I can tell, this is the one stumbling block, actually getting the snapshot of this drbd data volume to be mountable/usable... since the filesystem itself is still sitting on drbd which I am sure does some block fiddling (perhaps incidentally rather than intentionally) to prevent mounting, the same sort of thing as when you try to mount the underlying block device by mistake... -h -- Hari Sekhon Always open to interesting opportunities http://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon