Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Am 03.02.2011 22:46, schrieb Lars Ellenberg: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:20:50PM -0600, J wrote: >> On 2/3/2011 2:55 PM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: >>> Don't give up so quickly because of information overload ;-) >>> Your question was: >>> if I take a snapshot of the logical volume used by >>> drbd, will I be able to mount that locally (and easily?) >>> >>> Though J's answer is correct, it does not clearly say it: >>> >>> The answer is: Yes. >>> >>> It's that simple. >>> >> >> Thanks for answering my question Lars. I do appreciate it :) I >> decided I would go ahead and try it before I got too much into a new >> shell script for the alternative. I got to the point I thought I >> would get to. >> >> # lvcreate --snapshot --size 7g --name snap-srvr mvg/srvr >> Logical volume "snap-srvr" created >> # ls /dev/mvg >> home root snap-srvr srvr >> # mount /dev/mvg/snap-srvr /mnt >> mount: unknown filesystem type 'drbd' > > libblkid or whatever tries to play clever here > seems to try to be smarter than it's good for it. > > Just explicitly specify the file system, and be done with it. > > mount -t ext3 /dev/mvg/snap-srvr /mnt > > (or xfs, or ext4, or whatever you are using). Same issue is if you are trying to mount a (degraded) RAID1. libblkid tells not to know, but when mounting with extX etc. then everything is working fine. > > -- Mit herzlichen Grüßen T. Baumann -- tiri GmbH Lauenburger Str. 31a 21493 Schwarzenbek Tel. 04151 8674995 Fax. 04151 8674996 Net. http://www.tiri.li Geschäftsführer: Anja Baumann, Thomas Baumann Sitz Schwarzenbek, Amtsgericht Lübeck, HRB 8837 HL