On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 21:18, Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:10:22 +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
>
>> Am Freitag, 21. November 2008 15:03 schrieb Thomas Mueller:
>>> > Does the drbd OCF resource agent work reliably work with DRBD version
>>> > 8?
>>>
>>> i'm using it with dopd. had some problems, but one is fixed (see thread
>>> "probable bug with the OCF drbd script") and the other was produced by
>>> me (typo in globally-unique meta-data statement).
>>>
>>> see also this nice & actual howto:
>>> http://clusterlabs.org/mw/DRBD_HowTo_1.0
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> exactly this howto I was referencing I had in my mind. The developers
>> say, that v8 is not 100% tested and OCF RA does not work with
>> Master/Master. My questions were:
>> - is it working?
>
>
> i only use master/slave. i tested master/master without heartbeat and
> ocfs2. it caused troubles like ocfs2 fencing a node and problems with
> consistency of the drbd device after that fencing.

I'm guessing you weren't using the "userspace stack" functionality of
OCFS2 - otherwise this would never have happened.
This is the perfect example of internal split-brain that occurs when
applications use a different messaging/membership layer than the rest
of the cluster.

>
> the chance too lose data on splitbrain and the time to get manually back
> in a consistent state was too much.
>
>> - Master/Master with drbdlinks or with OCF RA?
>
> drbdlinks? what has this to do with drbd directly?
>
> drbd: manages the drbd device
> drbdlinks: When the shared cluster drive is mounted, certain files and
> directories are moved aside and links are created into the shared
> partition.
>
>
> - Thomas
>
>
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