Re: openssi 1.2 and drbd

"Daniel 'Fremen' Llewellyn" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.ssic.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18/09/06, Daniel 'Fremen' Llewellyn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > how does the installation of drbd affect the currently installed
> > > root filesystem? eg. my current rootfs on /dev/ida/c0d0p1 contains the
> > > debian install along with the openssi bits, and /dev/drbd/0 mapped to
> > > /dev/ida/c0d1p1 is empty. will the boot process load the original
> > > rootfs and combine it with the drbd rootfs, or will it use solely the
> > > drbd resulting in errors because the filesystem is empty?

to answer the questions myself (again :-p) - I modprobed drbd,
manually ran /etc/init.d/drbd start, then drbdadm -- --do-what-I-say
primary all, then ran dd on the old root device and the drbd device,
then rebooted using the drbd enabled initrd, and everything worked
like a charm :-D

-- 
Regards,
    Daniel "Fremen" Llewellyn

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