On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Dan Barker <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ drbd-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user
