On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:21:17PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2007-06-27T22:21:14, Lars Ellenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > maybe we just forget about it, > > and live with the (more or less hard!) > > reboot in case this triggers? > > > > :( > > It should be possible to fix this in the kernel though.
hope so :) > A force umount option has been requested several times, and I wonder > whether that has progressed ... simply err out any further IO to the > fs, or kill everything still accessing it, hard. that would probably help in this case. > With drbd in particular, a forced demote from primary should be > possible, right? yes, we could force a demote to Secondary, and fail all further IO, if any. it is probably slightly more involved than it sounds, however, since normally a secondary may be unconfigured just so, and now we'd have a secondary with open references to it, so it cannot go away yet. No, I don't see us implementing it, at least not for this reason. it does not help at all: the failing Filesystem-RA will cause Heartbeat to reboot the box even before telling DRBD anything about it... -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
