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PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook Managing a reliable PostgreSQL database

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125537
Length 536 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shaun Thomas Shaun Thomas
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Preface 1. Hardware Planning FREE CHAPTER 2. Handling and Avoiding Downtime 3. Pooling Resources 4. Troubleshooting 5. Monitoring 6. Replication 7. Replication Management Tools 8. Simple Stack 9. Advanced Stack 10. Cluster Control 11. Data Distribution

Incorporating the second LVM layer

In this recipe, we are going to create the second of our two LVM abstraction layers. While the first layer provides an elastic base for DRBD, this one will provide most of the LVM functionality that we will actually use on a regular basis.

Tasks such as creating filesystem snapshots or reorganizing data are within the domain of the second layer. This is because we create the filesystem on top of this second LVM definition. We can mount or otherwise manipulate a snapshot like any other filesystem. If we tried to create a snapshot with the first LVM layer, we would still have a snapshot, but it would be of an unreadable DRBD binary blob.

With that in mind, let's add the LVM layer necessary for filesystem manipulation.

Getting ready

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