[DRBD-user] DRBD and RAID-1

Stefan Seifert nine at detonation.org
Mon Nov 30 16:30:00 CET 2009

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On Monday 30 November 2009 15:10:45 Christian Iversen wrote:

> Seems to work fine. However, we would like to use LVM on top of the DRBD
> disk. When I issue the pvcreate command, it works, but pvdisplay gives
> me the following:
> 
> Yes, you read that right. It says /dev/md1. At this point I'm not sure
> if this is a minor naming bug, or a major data corruption bug? I'm sure
> that if the device is changed without updating the metadata, it will
> potentially destroy data.
> 
> 
> Can anybody explain this? I sure looks like a bug in the block layer,
> but is it related to DRBD? Or is is entirely benign?

It has already been explained pretty well in the DRBD user's guide:
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-lvm-drbd-as-pv.html

Regards,
Stefan
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