On 06/21/2012 11:10 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > In previous DRBD installations, a separate physical (e.g. non-LVM) > partition was kept in sync with DRBD. This partition was, say, > /dev/sda3 and was mounted on a /data directory in /etc/ha.d/ > haresources. > > While planning this for a new LVM based install, it occurs to me that > the partition that is mounted on /data must be a separate Logical > Volume. > > Currently, /data resides in the same logical volume that hosts /. > > Am I correct in thinking that when DRBD starts, it would sync not only > /data, but everything else in / too, including /root, /var, /home, > etc.? I don't see how it wouldn't. > > So it appears I'll have to create a separate logical volume and mount > /data on it as in the past. > > Sound reasonable, DRBD people?
yes ... DRBD does block-level replication. Regards, Andreas -- Need help with DRBD? http://www.hastexo.com/now > > > Thanks. > > > =====Keith > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user@lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >
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