[DRBD-user] how to drbd the / filesystem device

Ralf Hack ralf.hack at gmail.com
Tue May 4 10:59:28 CEST 2010

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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
>
>
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