Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On May 3, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Bart Coninckx wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 19:26:32 Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I've been reading and trying out drbd for the last 3 days. I know >> this >> may sounds a bit crazy, but... here goes: I realy need to drbd my "/" >> block device. >> >> I have a basic understanding of drbd and most examples I've seen so >> far >> point to drbd'ing a specific partition apart from the "core" OS >> partitions like "/", "/var"; >> >> I don't know if drbd'ing the "/" partition is acutally an >> impossibility >> "just because" or if there are ways to work around this and make the >> kernel be able to boot the drbd and mount the root filesystem on it. >> >> Like I said: I really don't know if this is a simple thing or a very >> complex workaround or even totally impossible. >> >> My problem is simple: boss want's it :) >> >> Any pointers or some light on the matter would be very much >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers >> Joao >> > > I've read before on this list it is near to impossible. But I wonder > what > would happen of you would put something on DRBD and to a pivot root > to it. I'm not an expert by any means, but the first major hurdle I see is : How would the secondary node operate if it can't have / mounted? Perhaps you're talking about running primary/primary, which I don't have direct experience with. alex -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20100503/1d414e8b/attachment.pgp>