Bill,
I would suggest creating a drbd resource, and then using that as the backing
for an encrypted PV. Is that what you're trying to do?
~Noah
On Oct 5, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Bill Asher wrote:
> Today I did a little test to see if I could configure DRBD on encrypted LVs
> and what I found is it didn't work for me... Because the servers are located
> in a colo, security for the servers is the main reasoning.
> All seems to go good until I tell DRBD to mirror filerA logical
> volume(/dev/vg/data) to filerB LV (/dev/vg/data). I then received errors on
> the console like this, over and over:
>
> "Block drbd0: open("/dev/vg/data") failed with -16"
>
> I then rebooted to Ubuntu CD to look at the LVs and.. they were all gone. The
> only thing the partitioner sees is the two partitions I created, one for
> /boot the other for logical volumes, but all my lvm tables were gone. I was
> able to repeat this issue on both my filers.
>
> So my question is..
>
> a) can this even be done, encrypting the filesystem then configureing DRBD
> b) if encryption can be done, is my approach wrong?
>
> Thank you in advance for your time.
>
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