Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Dan Barker <dbarker at visioncomm.net> wrote: >>Well if you had created a partition (/dev/sdc1) rather than use the full disk (/dev/sdc), then you could have set up that partition to match the size of the disk on your primary. > > Partition. Great idea. If I had thought of that, I'd have bought only one new 500G disk instead of two. Thanks for the hint. 1T disks cost the same as 500G these days. The physical device sizes differing isn't a problem at all; DRBD will just select the smaller size of the two. >>Why? Your cluster manager (typically Pacemaker) should take care of that for you. > > No cluster manager, no NA. Easy manual failover. This is a lab environment and HA is not really needed. The users of drbd storage are ESXi hosts. To "take" the primary server off line I: > DrbdR0: drbdadm primary all (allow dual primaries is on) > DrbdR0: start iet > ESXi (all): verify all four paths to both drbd are online We may have had this discussion before, but: http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/dual-primary-drbd-iscsi-and-multipath-dont-do-that/ > Thanks for the help. Pleasure. Cheers, Florian -- Need help with High Availability? http://www.hastexo.com/now