[DRBD-user] Problem mounting lvm snapshot

Bart Coninckx bart.coninckx at telenet.be
Wed Oct 27 19:35:22 CEST 2010

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Wednesday 27 October 2010 14:03:40 Lewis Donzis wrote:
> > You need to run LVM on top of DRBD for that. You can have LVM
> > - DRBD - LVM, but the snapshotting should occur on the top LVM.
> 
> We had contemplated that, but I wasn't sure what the advantage would be.
> On the secondary, /dev/drbdX is inaccessible, so if that's a PV for LVM,
> it doesn't seem like you'd have any access to it.  I must be missing
> something...
> 
> lew

I think you are - is this a primary-primary setup or primary-secondary? (cat 
/proc/drbd)



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