On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:37:33AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2007-07-03T00:34:24, Lars Ellenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Right. > > > 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... > > Well, if we knew the layer underneath would handle this,
to "handle" it that way, you don't need drbd below: hdparm it readonly :-> > one could set > the on_fail=ignore for the stop operation on the filesystem ... Though > it'd still be impossible to clean that up w/o a reboot, yup. > so I do see your point. -- : 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/
