Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 12:46 -0500, Alex Dean wrote: > 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? the secondary node will have to mount it's root either on RAM or on some other device that I still need to figure out what exactly it's going to be... the idea is that the secondary machine must "release" all the storage devices and run independently without needing to mount then (because it cant)... well... this approach really turns the secondary machine into something quite dumb... but I don't have any other solution... as for the primary I'm still thinking of the possible ways the kernel could mount the "/" on a device with drbd on it... some issues need to be solved such as the initial sync and so... initrd with drbd device driver.... I really don't have a detailed solution yet... but I'm trying ! comments ? thx joao