[DRBD-user] Re: filesystem corruptions

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Oct 10 18:18:35 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


/ 2005-10-10 19:58:45 +0400
\ Eugene Crosser:
> Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> 
> >>I would like to hear from people:
> >>- is there anybody who successfully use "protocol A" at all?
> > 
> > just as a side note, as long as no failover was involved to reproduce
> > the error, the drbd protocol is irrelevant.
> 
> Protocol is indeed irrelevant to the error: we reproduced the problem
> while protocol was 'C'.
> 
> Today, we ran this test: filesystem was mounted on /dev/md3 (without
> drbd), and we generated high traffic on the network interface (by
> running netcat from /dev/zero on one host to /dev/null on another).
> There where NO filesystem errors.
> 
> We are planning to run a test when the filesystem is mounted from drbd,
> and the gigabit interface is completely idle.  When we do that, we'll
> know for sure, but so far it *seems* that there is no relation between
> the appearance of errors and network activity.
> 
> Another test that we ran: we waited until a filesystem error on drbd
> device appeared, did *not* run fsck, removed drbd module and mounted the
> filesystem from md device.  It works for almost 24 hours now, there are
> no errors!  Apparently, the filesystem errors indeed appear only in the
> in-memory copy only.  I figure that this is an important symptom to
> narrow down the search.
> 
> I'll come back when we have more information.

thank you for investigating this systematically!

kernel version, distribution,
smp, preemt, memory,
cpu, storage subsystem, ...
?

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