[DRBD-user] Re: xen on drbd (or vice versa) [was: Changes in 0.7.12]

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Sep 7 17:20:43 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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/ 2005-09-07 16:21:43 +0200
\ Michael Paesold:
> Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> 
> >>Another option would be the current trunk version of drbd
> >>(Primary/Primary), but I guess you could not recommend using it. Is
> >>the on-disk storage compatible with 0.7? Can 0.7 partitions be
> >>upgraded to trunk?
> >
> >even then, it would be nonsense.
> 
> I don't think so...
> 
> >the client (guest) system will assume exclusive access, so no other
> >system may have write access, even less so on the node that is
> >drbd secondary.
> 
> The guest on the new host (after migration) will not start to run before the one on the old host will be 
> destroyed. The problem is that Xen wants to setup the virtual device _before_ the old guest died. It will not be 
> used at all until that point.

well.
then that is a problem of xen, and has to be fixed in xen.

no way we can allow you to have two primaries at any time if the
"application" expects exclusive access. it would break terribly, and
drbd would be blamed.

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