Re: [DRBD-user] % of utilisation on my drbd device

2012-01-25 Thread Lutz Vieweg
On 01/21/2012 04:48 PM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: Yet, it would be nice if the "utilization percentage" reported for drbd device was meaningful. Thanks for the reminder... besides these stats not being very useful for "virtual" block devices that do not have any queue anyways, it looks like our sta

Re: [DRBD-user] Snapshots

2012-01-25 Thread Felix Frank
Hi, On 01/25/2012 02:26 PM, Oren Nechushtan wrote: > Hi, > Is there a built in way to keep snapshots on the same node? > Namely, on each (e.g., of the two) nodes > Allocate extra space in advance > Configure DRBD to > /dev/drbd0 > /dev/sda1 - active partition > /dev/sda0 - dedicated for kee

[DRBD-user] Snapshots

2012-01-25 Thread Oren Nechushtan
Hi, Is there a built in way to keep snapshots on the same node? Namely, on each (e.g., of the two) nodes Allocate extra space in advance Configure DRBD to /dev/drbd0 /dev/sda1 - active partition /dev/sda0 - dedicated for keeping one snapshot Take snapshot should be fast - much faster th

Re: [DRBD-user] (no subject)

2012-01-25 Thread Pascal BERTON
Oren, AFAIK, DRBD doesn’t support snapshotting natively. Therefore, if I’m correct, you only have 2 ways to achieve what you intend to do : - Setup an VG/LV structure on top of your DRBD resource and make use of the LVM snapshot facility. Beware, I’ve read many articles mentioning tha

[DRBD-user] (no subject)

2012-01-25 Thread Oren Nechushtan
Hi,Is there a built in way to keep snapshots?Namely, on each (e.g., of the two) nodes Allocate space in advance Configure DRBD to /dev/drbd0 /dev/sda1 - active partition /dev/sda0 - dedicated for keeping one snapshot Take snapshot should be fast - much faster than ddAllow Reverting to th

Re: [DRBD-user] First DRBD attempt -- HELP pls

2012-01-25 Thread Felix Frank
On 01/25/2012 05:34 AM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: > When the metadata is created the corresponding /dev/drbd0 resource is > also created and that will replace /dev/vg_cllakvm2/lv_vmstore as what > is mounted to the directory /vmstore ? So the block device can have > data when it's made into a DRBD re