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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit@rabbit.us>
Subject: Re: how to synchronize two devices (RAID-1, but not really?)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:50:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4649824C.1010005@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46498053.9000807@dgreaves.com>

David Greaves schrieb:

(...)

>> So I want to synchronize /dev/LVM2/my-volume (ext3) with /dev/sdr (now
>> empty; bigger than /dev/LVM2/my-volume).
>>
>>
>> (sda2, sdb2, sdc2, sdd2) -> RAID-10 -> LVM-2 -> my volume -> ext3
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I've not used iSCSI but I wonder about using nbd : network block device
> 
> Use nbd to export /dev/md5 from machine 2.
> Import /dev/nbd0 on machine 1.
> Add nbd0 to the VG on machine 1
> pvmove the data from /dev/md10 to /dev/nbd0 (ie the md5 on machine2 via nbd)
> remove /dev/md10 from the VG.


Hmm, maybe using LVM's mirror would help me here:

CONFIG_DM_MIRROR: 


Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also 
 
      needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-15  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15  8:57 how to synchronize two devices (RAID-1, but not really?) Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-05-15  9:16 ` Peter Rabbitson
2007-05-15  9:27   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-05-15  9:41     ` David Greaves
2007-05-15  9:50       ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2007-05-16 17:36       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-15 14:22     ` Gregory Seidman
2007-05-15  9:29 ` Gordon Henderson
2007-05-15  9:44   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-05-15 10:16 ` Neil Brown
2007-05-15 10:36   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-05-15 11:12     ` Neil Brown
2007-05-15 10:41   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-05-15 11:07     ` Neil Brown
2007-05-15 11:21       ` Tomasz Chmielewski

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