Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
yes. Heartbeat activates the LV on the primary node. On Wednesday 26 May 2010 19:56:23 Lee Riemer wrote: > So you do this per node? > > [ LVM <-> DRBD <-> LVM ] > > On 5/26/2010 12:55 PM, Bart Coninckx wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 May 2010 19:36:33 Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > >> Hi list! > >> > >> I searched the web but I only found lvm on drbd and many problems > >> concerning kvm or xen. I need lvm and drbd to have a flexible > >> file server (without xen or the like). > >> > >> If I put lvm on top of drbd I run into problems. Such as a complex > >> failover situation and I am limited to the physical space of a HD or > >> partitions. > >> Thus I think drbd on lvm would be better. In the end I want a > >> drbd- and pacemaker- based file server with nfs and cifs and iSCSI. > >> Plus I want to add one or more HD easily whenever needed or provide > >> more or less disk space for a client or a share. > >> > >> What do you think? > >> > >> Thanks for suggestions! > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Oliver > >> _______________________________________________ > >> drbd-user mailing list > >> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > >> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > > > > Oliver, > > > > I put DRBD on top of LVM for one sole reason: being able to resize DRBD > > resources if I would ever need to. Without LVM below it, it's much > > riskier (see DRBD manual). > > I also put LVM at the same time on top of DRBD (see "nested LVM" in the > > DRBD manual) which works great, provided you change /etc/lvm/lvm.conf > > About the complex failover situation: if you have cluster software taking > > care of this, it should not be referred to any more as being "complex". > > Setting that software up might be however. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > > > Bart > > _______________________________________________ > > drbd-user mailing list > > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >