Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, just as a thought - is there a way of using your application in a chroot() environment. The you would not really need to boot into the drbd device but switch as some stage. Hope that helps. R On 4 May 2010 09:59, Joao Ferreira gmail <joao.miguel.c.ferreira at gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20100504/e2b02941/attachment.htm>