Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Use LVM as the drbd raw device this way you have the option to re-size the LVM (mostly enlarge) without any problem. you can find the meta-data overhead furmula at http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ch-internals.html but the cost is very small ~ for a 60GB resource the metadata is less then 4M. -- Rabin Yasharzadehe On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Net Warrior <netwarrior863 at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi there guys. > > I'have a doubt regarding meta-disk usage, I'd like to hear the > recomendations from you about that. > > I've got some logical volumes ( LVM on linux ) which I want to replicate, > this is a two node configuration, I've got some oracle database partitions > and other directories containing other data. > > What's not clear for me is if I have to use internal meta-disk like > /dev/sda4 or to create another lvm to hold that, some guys told me to use > one or another, but not a really answer, I know that I can use one or > another, but do not know the risks/adventages/disadventages if any. > > Another thing is if there is a calculation to the size of that partition, > let say, to replicate a 100GB partition the size of the metadisk should be > X size. > > Thanks for your time and support. > Regards > > > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20130827/7e9138d8/attachment.htm>