Re: [DRBD-user] Eraser coding

2021-09-24 Thread Digimer
in active/passive mode on two nodes backing NFS, and then mount the NFS mount on the three nodes? Avoids the need for a cluster FS (and it's expensive cluster locking), and avoids the unsupported active/active(/active). -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.co

Re: [DRBD-user] protocol C replication - unexpected behaviour

2021-08-10 Thread Digimer
know that a given block hasn't flushed yet and, on read request, read from cache not disk. This is a guess on my part. What are your 'disk { disk-flushes [yes|no]; and md-flushes [yes|no]; }' set to? -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am

Re: [DRBD-user] protocol C replication - unexpected behaviour

2021-08-10 Thread Digimer
On 2021-08-10 2:11 a.m., Eddie Chapman wrote: On 10/08/2021 00:01, Digimer wrote: On 2021-08-05 5:53 p.m., Janusz Jaskiewicz wrote: Hello. I'm experimenting a bit with DRBD in a cluster managed

Re: [DRBD-user] protocol C replication - unexpected behaviour

2021-08-09 Thread Digimer
dev/mapper/drbdpool-drbdata;     address   192.168.0.2:7789;     meta-disk internal;   } } What filesystem are you using? Is it cluster / multi-node aware? -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow,

Re: [DRBD-user] The Problem of File System Corruption w/DRBD

2021-06-03 Thread Digimer
o protect against hardware faults. This is true of the filesystem inside a VM, or a file system directly on top of a DRBD resource. The key take-away here is the role of different technologies in your over-all corporate resilience planning. It's one (very powerful) tool in a toolbox to protect you

Re: [DRBD-user] The Problem of File System Corruption w/DRBD

2021-06-03 Thread Digimer
layer. HA protects against component failure. That's it's job, and it does it well, when well implemented. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people

Re: [DRBD-user] The Problem of File System Corruption w/DRBD

2021-06-02 Thread Digimer
ent_ your HA solution. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweats

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.26

2020-12-22 Thread Digimer
es during attach > * implement 'blockdev --setro' in DRBD > * following upstream changes to DRBD up to Linux 5.10 and ensure >compatibility with Linux 5.8, 5.9, and 5.10 > > > https://www.linbit.com/downloads/drbd/9.0/drbd-9.0.26-1.tar.gz > https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd/commit/8e0c552326815d9d2bf

Re: [DRBD-user] : Backup "off line"

2020-10-12 Thread Digimer
into backups). In the end, DRBD is fundamentally an availability solution, and not a backup solution. (Same idea as how "RAID is not backup"). You really need to be sure that your data is backed up safely and incrementally. Any snapshot-based approach should be seen as a way to more rapidly recover t

[DRBD-user] Weird systemd / pacemaker stop crash issue

2020-07-15 Thread Digimer
resource, stop cluster, start cluster, stop cluster OK node 1 - https://pastebin.com/raw/haECJz8y node 2 - https://pastebin.com/raw/tBSD0ZyJ -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the

Re: [DRBD-user] secondary not getting promoted to primary

2020-03-11 Thread Digimer
The best advice would be to first upgrade (or create a new test system) with the latest 8.4 release, and see if the problem remains and can be reproduced. digimer On 2020-03-11 9:47 a.m., Mona Sinha wrote: > Hello Roland, > > Thanks for recognising me . But on a serious note, i

Re: [DRBD-user] How long does it take OOS to clear

2019-10-21 Thread Digimer
Without knowing your setup or what is limiting you; I can suggest two options; 1. Faster hardware (links speed / peer disk) 2. Switch to Protocol C digimer On 2019-10-21 4:36 p.m., G C wrote: > Is there anything that will force the OOS to push what is out of sync? > > > On Mon,

Re: [DRBD-user] How long does it take OOS to clear

2019-10-21 Thread Digimer
Tuning is quite instance-specific. I would always suggest starting by commenting out all tuning, see how it behaves, then tune. Premature optimization never is. digimer On 2019-10-21 1:31 p.m., G C wrote: > Would any of these values being changed help or would it need to be the > actual

Re: [DRBD-user] How long does it take OOS to clear

2019-10-21 Thread Digimer
likely unacceptable. In short, you have a hardware/resource issue. digimer On 2019-10-21 12:19 p.m., G C wrote: > version: 8.4.10 > Ran the resume-sync all and received: > 0: Failure: (135) Sync-pause flag is already cleared > Command 'drbdsetup-84 resume-sync 0' terminated with

Re: [DRBD-user] How long does it take OOS to clear

2019-10-21 Thread Digimer
go down. What protocol are you using? A, B or C? digimer On 2019-10-21 11:31 a.m., G C wrote: > I'm seeing OOS not being cleared for many days if not weeks, i.e. the > OOS number stays the same. > > Is there a way to tell if the blocks that are OOS are changing or if > it'

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd sycing again from the start

2019-10-17 Thread Digimer
8.4.4 is old. Can you upgrade to the latest 8.4.11? I believe 8.4.4 was older than the other reporters with a similar issue, so this may be fixed. Upgrading to .11 should not cause any issues. PS - Please keep replies on the list. These discussions help others by being in the archives. digimer

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd sycing again from the start

2019-10-15 Thread Digimer
! > Paras. Do you have the system logs from when you started DRBD on the nodes post-recovery? There should be DRBD log entries on both nodes as DRBD started. The reason/trigger of the resync will likely be explained in there. If not, please share the logs. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: h

Re: [DRBD-user] How long does it take OOS to clear

2019-10-07 Thread Digimer
r, and may not be acceptable in your use case (see back to point 1 above). digimer On 2019-10-07 10:40 a.m., G C wrote: > I have an instance that seems to get OOS down lower and once in a while > it hits 0 but not very often.  Typically my oos is about 18-20, > is there a way to clear this ou

Re: [DRBD-user] Occasional split-brain at boot time

2019-04-17 Thread digimer
owever, I would like to understand why the split-brain condition takes sometimes on booting up and,  more importantly, how to prevent this from happening, if at all possible.    Suggestions? Stonith in pacemaker, once tested, fencing in DRBD. This is what fencing is for. d

Re: [DRBD-user] I need a little help with drbd and pacemaker - node never promoted

2019-04-15 Thread digimer
The thing is, even though it's a test system, pacemaker and DRBD will still operate as if it is critical. Turning off stonith won't properly emulate production because when a node enters an unknown state, the system will no longer behave predictably. digimer On 2019-04-15 12:13 p.m., Graham

Re: [DRBD-user] I need a little help with drbd and pacemaker - node never promoted

2019-04-15 Thread digimer
For one; Enable and test stonith in Pacemaker. When a node can be failed and fenced, then configure drbd to use fencing: resource-and-stonith; and set the {un,}fence-handler to crm-{un,}fence-peer.sh. digimer On 2019-04-12 11:51 p.m., Graham Smith wrote: Hi 1st time user, trying to set up

Re: [DRBD-user] Number of nodes supported for DRBD

2019-02-20 Thread Digimer
) maximum of 16 nodes there’ll be 120 host pairs to connect. ==== -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton f

[DRBD-user] Building DRBD9 on RHEL8

2019-01-15 Thread Digimer
, I'll rebuild under an unprivileged user. Below I will include the contents of the above links, just in case the links disappear someday. Thanks for any insight or help! Digimer * Current .spec: Name: drbd-kernel Summary: Kernel driver for DRBD Version: 9.0.16 Release: 1 # always require

Re: [DRBD-user] Ask some questions about the splitting of the dual master device

2018-12-09 Thread Digimer
to be fenced in a way that informs DLM that the lost node has been fenced. I do not know of any fence handlers that do this is a pure DRBD install. So for practical purposes, no, you will need pacemaker with a proper stonith configuration to avoid split-brains in the first place. -- Digimer Papers

Re: [DRBD-user] Configuring a two-node cluster with redundant nics on each node?

2018-10-19 Thread digimer
on the stack). We can and have failed NICs, cables and switches without interruption. We've documented this setup here; https://www.alteeve.com/w/Build_an_m2_Anvil!#Logical_Map.3B_Hardware_And_Plumbing digimer ___ drbd-user mailing list drbd-user

Re: [DRBD-user] split brain on both nodes

2018-10-18 Thread Digimer
On 2018-10-18 4:00 p.m., Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:11:42PM -0400, Digimer wrote: >> On 2018-10-17 5:35 a.m., Adam Weremczuk wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Yesterday I rebooted both nodes a couple of times (replacing BBU RAID >>>

Re: [DRBD-user] split brain on both nodes

2018-10-17 Thread Digimer
) adapts the resync rate to minimize impact on applications using the storage. As it slows itself down to "stay out of the way", the resync time increases of course. You won't have redundancy until the resync completes. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I a

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd resyncing entire device after each reboot

2018-10-05 Thread Digimer
u need the configuration (although it should be identical to > similar drbd configs which are working without problems) I am happy to > provide it. > > Best and many thanks if any body could shed some light on this, > Hp Can you share your config? Are you using thin LVM? Also, 8.4.7 is _anc

Re: [DRBD-user] Node1 Standalone Inconsistent/Outdated Node 2 WFConnection Inconsisten/DUnknown - how to recover?

2018-10-03 Thread Digimer
1, run 'drbdadm connect r0'. Wait for things to settle, then share the new status of /proc/drbd and the log output from the two nodes please. digimer -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain tha

Re: [DRBD-user] Mount and use disk while Inconsistent?

2018-09-21 Thread digimer
Yup, its fine. Note though; If the UpToDate node goes offline, the Inconsistent node will force itself to Secondary and be unusable. So while it's possible to mount and use, be careful that whatever is being used can handle having the storage ripped out from under it. digimer On 2018-09

Re: [DRBD-user] Any way to jump over initial sync ?

2018-08-28 Thread digimer
' will be problematic. digimer ___ drbd-user mailing list drbd-user@lists.linbit.com http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.15

2018-08-14 Thread Digimer
e IOPs up to 30% on a system >with fast backend storage; lowers CPU load caused by DRBD on every workload > * compat for v4.18 kernel > > http://www.linbit.com/downloads/drbd/9.0/drbd-9.0.15-1.tar.gz > https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd-9.0/releases/tag/drbd-9.0.15 > &g

Re: [DRBD-user] frequent split brains without network interruption

2018-06-12 Thread Digimer
Fencing prevents split-brains, period. You absolutely want to set that up. On 2018-06-12 04:02 AM, Christian Still wrote: > Hello Roland, Hello Digimer, > > thank you for your fast response, > > at the moment I have upgraded one host from source to: > > cat /proc/drbd >

Re: [DRBD-user] frequent split brains without network interruption

2018-06-12 Thread Digimer
gards, rck Also, are you using fencing? -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton

Re: [DRBD-user] About outdated and inconsistent state

2018-06-05 Thread Digimer
is a replication technology meant to protect against hardware faults. Think of it like RAID level 1, but for a full machine. You wouldn't use RAID 1 for backups. So DRBD is very useful, but it scratches a different itch. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, les

Re: [DRBD-user] About outdated and inconsistent state

2018-06-04 Thread digimer
that the data on the disk had started to sync from an UpToDate node, but that the resync has not finished. The data on the disk is likely not usable (specifically, it might be a mix of new and old data). digimer ___ drbd-user mailing list drbd-user

Re: [DRBD-user] about split-brain

2018-04-20 Thread Digimer
comments; USE FENCING! That is, a node should be power cycled (or at least disconnected from the network at the switch level) when it stops responding. If both nodes are alive, you can either let the faster one win, or, configure 'delay="15"' on the stonith config in pacemaker's fence conf

Re: [DRBD-user] Interesting issue with drbd 9 and fencing

2018-02-13 Thread Digimer
On 2018-02-13 09:39 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 02:43:27AM -0500, Digimer wrote: >> On 2018-02-11 01:42 AM, Digimer wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> >>   I've setup a 3-node cluster (config below). Basically, Node 1 & 2 are

[DRBD-user] Managing a 3-node DRBD 9 resource in pacemker

2018-02-11 Thread Digimer
know how to set it up such that it doesn't care about the DR node's state (specially because the DR is not part of the pacemaker cluster). Is it possible with the current RA to setup such that it only monitors the two nodes in pacemaker and ignores the state of the DR node? Cheers -- Digimer Pa

[DRBD-user] Interesting issue with drbd 9 and fencing

2018-02-10 Thread Digimer
  Did it somehow maintain connection through node 3?   If not, then a) Why didn't the fence-handler get invoked? b) Why is it still showing connected?   If so, then is the connection between node 1 and 2 still protocol C, even if the connection between 1 <->

Re: [DRBD-user] Moving TeraBytes to drbd device

2017-10-05 Thread Digimer
Good fencing prevents split-brains, period. Setup pacemaker, setup and test stonith, configure DRBD to use 'fencing resource-and-stonith;' and enable the crm-{un,}fence-peer.sh' {un,}fence-handlers. The setup pacemaker to colocate the DRBD resource -> FS -> IP. digimer On 2017-10-05 05

Re: [DRBD-user] Moving TeraBytes to drbd device

2017-10-05 Thread Digimer
Will you be using pacemaker for auto-recovery, or are you planning to do fully manual recovery? digimer On 2017-10-05 12:19 PM, José Andrés Matamoros Guevara wrote: > OK. That's a procedure I have thought about, but didn't know if there were > another more effective. I just have to che

Re: [DRBD-user] Moving TeraBytes to drbd device

2017-10-04 Thread Digimer
to setup a DRBD based system, we'll need to know more about what you want the system to do. cheers, digimer On 2017-10-04 11:29 PM, José Andrés Matamoros Guevara wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > > Yes, I need to copy a SAN to a new drbd system. And yes, I'll check with > LinBit for

Re: [DRBD-user] Moving TeraBytes to drbd device

2017-10-03 Thread Digimer
tside prod thoroughly to be certain you have the steps down pat. There are docs on how to do this openly available on LINBIT's website. If you get stuck on certain steps, post specific questions and we'll help. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less in

Re: [DRBD-user] Problem updating 8.3.16 to 8.4.10 -- actually problem while *downgrading* (no valid meta-data signature found)

2017-09-25 Thread Digimer
On 2017-09-25 07:28 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:32:42PM -0400, Digimer wrote: >> I tried updating an 8.3.19 DRBD install (on EL6.9), and when I tried to > > 8.3.16 is the latest I know... typo I assume. Yup, typo. Was late... >> connect the upda

[DRBD-user] Problem updating 8.3.16 to 8.4.10

2017-09-23 Thread Digimer
uld truncate and cause errors, so I assume drbd 8.4 updated the metadata and 8.3 doesn't recognize it now... -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equ

Re: [DRBD-user] Changes on drbdmanage

2017-09-08 Thread Digimer
thinking almost the same thing. Even started writing a flame answer ;-) > > Can you unsubscride such lame users ? > > Julien It's possible the sender sent the email incomplete by accident. There is no evidence of malice so I think there is no need for a harsh reaction. -- Digimer P

Re: [DRBD-user] csums-alg,verify-alg algorithm

2017-08-28 Thread Digimer
system. I would stick with something fast, maybe md5 at the most. This all said, I am not an expert. If someone else says I am wrong, believe them. :) -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain tha

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Dual Primary + GFS2 for redundant KVM hosts

2017-08-25 Thread Digimer
On 2017-08-25 04:08 PM, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 25-08-2017 22:01 Digimer ha scritto: >> On 2017-08-25 03:37 PM, Gionatan Danti wrote: >> >> The overhead of clustered locking is likely such that your VM >> performance would not be good, I think. > > Mmm.

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Dual Primary + GFS2 for redundant KVM hosts

2017-08-25 Thread Digimer
hnology solution, where DRBD is pure resiliency/replication. So for HA-focused platforms, DRDB makes a lot more sense, and that is why we use it under the Anvil! platform. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convol

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Dual Primary + GFS2 for redundant KVM hosts

2017-08-25 Thread Digimer
On 2017-08-25 03:37 PM, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 25-08-2017 14:34 Digimer ha scritto: >> >> Our Anvil! project (https://www.alteeve.com/w/Build_an_m2_Anvil!) is >> basically this, except we put the VMs on clustered LVs and use gfs2 to >> store install media and th

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Dual Primary + GFS2 for redundant KVM hosts

2017-08-25 Thread Digimer
nstall media and the server XML files. I would NOT put the image files on gfs2, as the distributed locking overhead would hurt performance a fair bit. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in

Re: [DRBD-user] Dual primary and LVM

2017-07-26 Thread Digimer
will probably need to do a pv/vg/lvscan to pick up changes. This is quite risky though and certainly not recommended if you run DRBD in dual-primary. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the ne

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.10

2017-06-02 Thread Digimer
od-drbd84-8.4.10-1.el6.anvil.x86_64.rpm https://www.alteeve.com/an-repo/el6/SRPMS/drbd84-kmod-8.4.10-1.el6.anvil.src.rpm -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty t

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.10

2017-06-01 Thread Digimer
patibility with Linux kernels up to 4.12 Thanks for the release! Once utils is released, how urgent would you suggest an update is? cheers -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in t

Re: [DRBD-user] Pacemaker DRBD dual-Primary setup, node shutdown before DRBD syncing completes.

2017-04-01 Thread Digimer
ources: > > vCluster-VirtualIP-10.168.10.199 (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr2): > Started server7ha > vCluster-Stonith-server7ha (stonith:fence_ipmilan):Stopped > vCluster-Stonith-server4ha (stonith:fence_ipmilan):Started > server7ha > Clone Set: dlm

Re: [DRBD-user] GFS2 - DualPrimaryDRBD hangs if a node Crashes

2017-03-24 Thread Digimer
> > > Can anyone help how to avoid running node hang when other node crashes? > > > Attaching DRBD config file. > > > --Raman > > > > ___ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user@

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.7rc1 & drbd-utils-8.9.11rc1

2017-03-23 Thread Digimer
ptions twice > * various JSON output fixes > * udev fixes for newer ubuntu releases > * set bitmap to 0 on metadata creation > > http://www.drbd.org/download/drbd/utils/drbd-utils-8.9.11rc1.tar.gz > http://git.drbd.org/drbd-utils.git/tag/refs/tags/v8.9.11rc1 > > best,

Re: [DRBD-user] How long can a secondary be down?

2017-03-14 Thread Digimer
any problems. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.&quo

Re: [DRBD-user] Concurrent local write detected!

2017-03-02 Thread Digimer
On 02/03/17 02:40 PM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 03:07:52AM -0500, Digimer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We had an event last night on a system that's been in production for a >> couple of years; DRBD 8.3.16. At almost exactly midnight, both

[DRBD-user] Concurrent local write detected!

2017-03-02 Thread Digimer
e years I've been using DRBD. Let me know if there are any other logs or info Thanks! digimer -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talen

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD for the upgraded kernal

2017-01-20 Thread Digimer
the same versions of everything you have on prod, clone the images, and then try the upgrade. If you run into trouble, you can "reset" by reloading the images. There is no other way to know for sure. digimer On 20/01/17 06:14 AM, pillai bs wrote: > > Thank you Trevor/Digimer.

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD for the upgraded kernal

2017-01-19 Thread Digimer
han nothing) to match the current version of your cluster and test the upgrade there first. We will never know your environment well enough to say "this is safe". If you want commercial support, LINBIT (the company behind DRBD) offers commercial support and official releases. -

Re: [DRBD-user] Upgarde from DRBD 8.4 to DRBD 9

2017-01-10 Thread Digimer
/yum/rhel7/drbd-9.0/ > gpgcheck=0 > > <https://www.drbd.org/en/doc/users-guide-90/s-upgrading-drbd> The hash is provided when you purchase a support agreement from LINBIT. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convol

Re: [DRBD-user] secondary DRBD node shows UpToDate but is not

2016-12-22 Thread Digimer
On 22/12/16 04:22 PM, Bart Coninckx wrote: > -Original message- > *From:* Digimer <li...@alteeve.ca> > *Sent:* Thu 22-12-2016 20:55 > *Subject:*Re: [DRBD-user] secondary DRBD node shows UpToDate but is not > *To:* Bart Coninckx <i...@bitsa

Re: [DRBD-user] secondary DRBD node shows UpToDate but is not

2016-12-22 Thread Digimer
a complete virtualization setup is running on top of > it, this is not evident, hence the reason why I inquire first about > possible known issues. > > Cheers, Might not be helpful, but have you tried running a verify? https://www.drbd.org/en/doc/users-guide-84/s-use-online-verify --

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD packages for Proxmox 4.x

2016-11-26 Thread Digimer
the debate to other forums. How long would you last before you got emotional? I very much agree that maintaining calm and civility is important. I even think that Roland's reply was emotional and not overly professional. However, he, like you and I, are human. Cut him some slack. digimer On 26/1

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD9

2016-09-28 Thread Digimer
no. > Not yet, anyways. > Various bits an pieces missing. Is there a time line for expected support? -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? ___

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD9

2016-09-24 Thread Digimer
available in stacked mode." You will need to tell us more about your setup. What OS? What are the pacemaker and DRBD configurations? Show the complete log output from both nodes (starting from just before you tried to start until a little after it failed, from both/all nodes). -- Digimer Pape

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD fencing prevents resource promotion in active/passive cluster

2016-09-20 Thread Digimer
ork anymore. Even removing the setting > from the DRBD configuration does not help. > > I discussed this on the Pacemaker mailing list and from a Pacemaker point of > view this should not happen. The nodes are still online so no fencing should > happen, however DRBD fences the wrong node? &g

Re: [DRBD-user] Drbd/pacemaker active/passive san failover

2016-09-19 Thread Digimer
resource to the > global_common.conf file. Furthermore, I want to change it to > > fencing resource-and-stonith; This is what it should have been, yes. However, I doubt it would have helped in this failure scenario. > 4) Finally, in the global "net" section I need to add: >

Re: [DRBD-user] Is DRBD9 ready for production

2016-08-11 Thread Digimer
tures not yet released. If, though, 8.4 is good enough for you and if your tolerance for risk is very low, then you might want to stick with 8.4 for the time being. Keep in mind as well; The more people that use DRBD 9, the faster it will mature. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca

Re: [DRBD-user] testing this list

2016-07-20 Thread Digimer
On 20/07/16 12:42 PM, David Bruzos wrote: > Hi, I'm attempting to post a message to this list and it is not showing up > for some reason. Did anyone get this? > > David Test succeeded. You can pick up your celebratory cupcake by the door on the way out of the exam hall. -- Di

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.8-1.tar.gz

2016-07-18 Thread Digimer
To anyone on EL6 with interest, we've updated our DRBD RPMs on the AN!Repo[1]. digimer 1. https://alteeve.ca/an-repo/el6/ On 18/07/16 12:20 PM, Digimer wrote: > \o/ > > On 18/07/16 08:57 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: >> >> No one complained about the release candidate,

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.8-1.tar.gz

2016-07-18 Thread Digimer
HEL 5) >> * al_write_transaction: skip re-scanning of bitmap page pointer array. >>Improves performance of random writes on "huge" volumes >>by burning less CPU and avoiding CPU cache pressure. > > Thanks, > > Lars &g

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 9.1 ???

2016-07-14 Thread Digimer
On 15/07/16 12:44 AM, Igor Cicimov wrote: > On 15 Jul 2016 9:30 am, "Digimer" <li...@alteeve.ca > <mailto:li...@alteeve.ca>> wrote: >> >> On 14/07/16 07:10 PM, Igor Cicimov wrote: >> > Ok, this has been coming for a while now, does anyon

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 9.1 ???

2016-07-14 Thread Digimer
a while now"? -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? ___ drbd-user mailing list drbd-user@lists.linbit.com http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Recovery actions without Pacemaker

2016-07-07 Thread Digimer
on the primary, the network > services are stopped, the external ip address is removed, the file > systems are unmounted, drbd is demoted to secondary. The other machine > is promoted just like hardware failover. > > Klint. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if t

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Recovery actions without Pacemaker

2016-07-07 Thread Digimer
t; > How can I recover and use this data without introducing pacemaker to our > configuration? Manually, or rgmanager. > Thanks for your help. > > -James Ault > > > _______ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user@lists.li

Re: [DRBD-user] performance issues during a resync

2016-06-28 Thread Digimer
/users-guide-84/s-replication-protocols You probably want to look at DRBD proxy: https://www.drbd.org/en/doc/users-guide-84/s-drbd-proxy digimer On 27/06/16 12:18 PM, Louis Munro wrote: > Hello, > > I manage a pair of servers in two separate datacenters that replicate a > dev

[DRBD-user] Looking for DRBD 9 RPM testers

2016-06-25 Thread Digimer
a test. If I can get some feedback, I'll pass them up to ELRepo (if they want them) for wider availability. Please note; These are very much testing RPMs and they are unsigned. Even if they appear to work well, I would not use them in production. :) Thanks! digimer 1. http://elrepo.org/linux

Re: [DRBD-user] Resolving split brain

2016-06-07 Thread Digimer
On 07/06/16 04:09 PM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 12:24:48PM -0400, Digimer wrote: >> On 07/06/16 08:46 AM, David Pullman wrote: >>> Digimer, >>> >>> Thanks for the direction, this sounds right for sure. So to actually do >>> this:

Re: [DRBD-user] Resolving split brain

2016-06-04 Thread Digimer
he I/O between the nodes goes > down. We have two switches in a redundant configuration connecting the > nodes. For unrelated reasons I can't change the interconnect. > > Any suggestions, referrals to docs, etc., would be greatly appreciated. Fencing. 100% required, and will prevent split b

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD server not become as primary and sync data from other one after reboot.

2016-05-07 Thread Digimer
t having fencing configured. For a more useful answer, please share more information on your environment and config. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? __

Re: [DRBD-user] How to detach the DRBD Block Device.

2016-04-21 Thread Digimer
, > > Yahagi(TGI) > Can you paste the output of 'cat /proc/drbd' from the machine you are trying to detach? If the peer is not UpToDate and Primary, then it needs the local machine to run. (Just a guess, /proc/drbd will give better indication). madi -- Digimer Papers and Projects: htt

Re: [DRBD-user] Standalone configuration

2016-04-20 Thread Digimer
s no meaning. The inode(s) are marked dirty and it's done. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? ___ drbd-user mailing list drbd-user@lists.linbit.com http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD configuration with HA NFS

2016-03-22 Thread Digimer
attached DRBD configuration file and suggest correct > configuration for DRBD. Should I able to mount this volume on both node > with Read/write access and also mount this same volume third node with > Read/Write access. > > Kindly guide for same. > > Regards, > Vij

Re: [DRBD-user] [ClusterLabs] DRBD fencing issue on failover causes resource failure

2016-03-19 Thread Digimer
h (the former being ideal for production, the later being easier to setup but more fragile, so only good for testing). -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?

Re: [DRBD-user] [ClusterLabs] DRBD fencing issue on failover causes resource failure

2016-03-19 Thread Digimer
On 16/03/16 03:29 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 16/03/16 01:51 PM, Tim Walberg wrote: >> Is there a way to make this work properly without STONITH? I forgot to >> mention >> that both nodes are virtual machines (QEMU/KVM), which makes STONITH a minor >> challenge. Also, sinc

Re: [DRBD-user] [ClusterLabs] DRBD fencing issue on failover causes resource failure

2016-03-19 Thread Digimer
aster (score:INFINITY) (with-rsc-role:Master) > (id:colocation-drbd_fs-drbd_master-INFINITY) > > Resources Defaults: > resource-stickiness: 100 > failure-timeout: 60 > Operations Defaults: > No defaults set > > Cluster Properties: > cluster-infrastructure: corosync

Re: [DRBD-user] Split brain auto recovery with DRBD9

2016-03-01 Thread Digimer
On 01/03/16 08:56 PM, Mark Wu wrote: > Hi Digimer, > > Thanks for your reply! > > Yes, I understand fencing can prevent split-brains. But in my case it > maybe not sufficient. Let me clarify my use case. Basically, you can > get the architecture from http://ibin.co/2Y

Re: [DRBD-user] Split brain auto recovery with DRBD9

2016-03-01 Thread Digimer
e is written to the other node. I am pretty sure that the older, smaller changes are a lot more valuable. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? _

Re: [DRBD-user] A question

2016-02-22 Thread Digimer
On 22/02/16 06:00 PM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:10:12PM -0500, Digimer wrote: >> On 22/02/16 11:59 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 02:04:36PM -0500, Digimer wrote: >>>> This software is purely for 8.4, so

Re: [DRBD-user] A question

2016-02-22 Thread Digimer
On 22/02/16 11:59 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 02:04:36PM -0500, Digimer wrote: >> This software is purely for 8.4, so I am not worried about DRBD 9 >> compatibility at this time. >> >> That said, I would rather not use it anyway, so if I can get

Re: [DRBD-user] A question

2016-02-18 Thread Digimer
This software is purely for 8.4, so I am not worried about DRBD 9 compatibility at this time. That said, I would rather not use it anyway, so if I can get the estimate resync time via another tool, I would prefer to do so. digimer On 18/02/16 02:03 PM, Julien Escario wrote: > Hello, >

[DRBD-user] A question

2016-02-18 Thread Digimer
to seconds if the data is already available directly somewhere. Thanks! -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? ___ drbd-user mailing list

Re: [DRBD-user] Forcing a device to be primary on a backup site

2016-02-01 Thread Digimer
node 1. When fencing succeeds, Node 2 knows the state of node 1 (off) and can safely promote itself without causing a split-brain and recovery can proceed. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to educatio

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd lost lvm configuration

2016-01-18 Thread Digimer
disk internal; > } > on filer06 { > device /dev/drbd0; > disk /dev/cciss/c0d0p4; > address 192.168.2.11:7788; > meta-disk internal; > } > } > > filter in lvm.conf > > filter = [ "a|drbd[0-9]|", "r|.*|" ] > > >

Re: [DRBD-user] writer order on secondary site

2015-12-22 Thread Digimer
anges is is when the primary considers the write to be complete which depends on your protocol (c == hits storage on the peer, b == received on the peer's network, a == hits the local machines network stack). -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.7 & drbd-utils-8.9.5

2015-12-17 Thread Digimer
refs/tags/v8.9.5 > > > cheers, > Phil > ___ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user@lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure

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