On 2/26/2013 3:36 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > That should work, but what happens if they ever get out of sync? How > long will it take drbd to catch up with something that size? the initial sync of the 8TB starting volumes is looking to be a 460 hour affair. yeouch. I might have to rethink this. I also haven't investigated yet if drbd devices can be 'grown' ... pause replication, lvextend slave and master, xfs_grow the master, and resume replication? or is that too easy and it won't work... -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast