[DRBD-user] Problem mounting lvm snapshot

Lewis Donzis lew at pt.net
Wed Oct 27 20:50:10 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.


> > 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...

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

It's primary/secondary.  I meant to ask whether primary-primary would be
acceptable if we promised not to touch the disk on what is actually the
secondary, and accessed it only through an LVM snapshot underneath DRBD.

lew



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