Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 02:44:35PM +0100, Henrik Kuhn wrote: > Does anybody know what kind of configuration setup is necessary on > openSUSE 11.1 to bring a drdb-device into primary role during the > execution of the initrd linuxrc-script? > The purpose would be that on one node a drbd-device gets primary before > fsck checks the underlying FS during system boot and the device is ready > for auto-mounting via fstab. > > So far I have figured out: Because drbd needs the /etc/drbd.conf, it is > not sufficient to add the drbd-module to the INITRD_MODULES list and run > 'mkinitrd', because the mkinitrd scripts are missing for handling drdb > specific tasks during generation of the initial ramdisk. > > Is it possible to add the necessary drbd items manually to an existing > initrd? You probably won't like my comment: Don't do that. Do not try to activate drbd from your initrd. Simply don't. It is in almost every case the completly wrong approach. But, maybe you have a very good reason to try to activate drbd from your initrd, so please, what exactly are you up to? -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. __ please don't Cc me, but send to list -- I'm subscribed