[DRBD-user] DRBD over ZFS - or the other way around?

Gionatan Danti g.danti at assyoma.it
Wed Sep 6 15:56:35 CEST 2017

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On 06/09/2017 15:31, Yannis Milios wrote:
> If your topology is like the following:  HDD -> ZFS (ZVOL) -> DRBD -> 
> XFS then I believe it should make sense to always mount at the DRBD 
> level and not at the ZVOL level which happens to be the underlying 
> blockdev for DRBD.
Sure! Directly mounting the DRBD-backing ZVOL would, at the bare 
minumum, ruin the replication with the peer.

I was speaking about mounting ZVOLs *snapshots* to access previous data 
version.

Regards.

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