Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, how long will 8.0.* be supported? By that i mean receiving bug fixes? I'm currently choosing between 8.0 and 8.3 drbd centos packages. In 2004 Lars wrote this: " The problem is: snapshotting a DRBD device. For *why* this might be a problem, read the other thread again ;) http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.linux.drbd/6125 Definition: "consistent" denotes data that is useable, but usually needs a journal replay/undo of certain pending transactions, or even a short fsck or similar, to actually be clean. "clean" denotes data that is consistent and has *no* pending transactions. To snapshot a DRBD device, you have several options. You can use LVM2 on top of DRBD. Then for the process of taking the snapshot, you can ignore DRBD, and just do as usual. You need to take the snapshot on the DRBD primary! For LVM2 on top of DRBD, you need to configure certain filter settings, otherwise LVM would bypass DRBD and recognize and access the lower level devices directly. See: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.drbd/4813 If you insist on using DRBD on top of LVM, you can still do clean snapshots, you do not need to stop drbd, you do not need to make the primary secondary, you can take the snapshot on either node. But you will have a *short downtime*, as long as it takes to shut down all services cleanly, umount, create the snapshot, mount, and start the services again. If you don't care about a the *cleanness*, and are satisfied with a merely consistent snapshot (see Definition above), just do your snapshot anytime and any node, ignoring the existence of DRBD... and if it does not work, (you are not able to access or use it, because it is not clean enough), try again: snapshot creation is racing with the users modifing the device (applications and file system) for a clean view of the data. There are file systems that have their own suspend and resume hooks. One of them is XFS, which will only work with DRBD 0.7+ If you happen to use some of these, you can always do a clean snapshot by suspending the active (mounted) file system, creating the snapshot, and tell the fs to resume again. Eventually we will built in into the user space tools or into the module, or both, some hooks to guarantee a clean snapshot. This does not seem to be that difficult, but it will take some time to do it right, and somebody just has to do it :) HTH. Lars Ellenberg " Is this ready yet or should i just put lvm on top of drbd and use lvm for snapshots? Regards, M.