Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:14:57AM -0600, Ted Young wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations with managing a large quantity of > > hot-swappable drives (e.g. tracking which drives in which bay, > > managing the DRBD volume pairings, etc.)? > > > > Use LVM on top of the drives themselves and then use logical volumes as > the DRBD backing devices. > > I see why that would solve the problem. However, I am concerned that it > might be overkill. Most notably, I am concerned about adding an extra layer > of management and overhead. Is there really no other way to manage the > association between physical volumes and DRBD volumes? What about > configuring the drives by ID or by UUID (e.g. /dev/disks/by-id/*)? > > I am particularly interested in the fact that there seems to be little to no > information about this on the Internet. This leads me to believe that there > is already a simple method in place to prevent this problem that I am > missing or that this is not actually a problem at all. Just use /dev/disk/by-id/, trust your udev to create them correctly, and be happy. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com