[DRBD-user] BrokenPipe

Tom Brown brown at esteem.com
Wed Jul 26 18:52:02 CEST 2006

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On Sunday 23 July 2006 15:33, Tom Brown wrote:
> I'm running an older version of drbd (0.6.12). I am planning on upgrading
> to 0.7.20 this week. However, I'm not sure if that will necessarily solve
> my problem. I have three devices and the third one fails to sync.
<snip>
> 2: cs:BrokenPipe st:Primary/Secondary ns:5521284 nr:0 dw:3352 dr:5525309
> pe:7085 ua:0
>         NEEDS_SYNC
>
> They all sync through the same 100 Mb pipe. I'm guessing the third 
> one, /dev/nb2, is timing out because of too much traffic. That would explain 
> why I see the status as 'BrokenPipe'. Is this a reasonable scenario?
<snip>

In response to my own question, I was able to resolve the broken pipe. I added 
a third network interface to each node. I dedicated the new subnet to the 
third drbd device. The third drbd device was able to sync without a problem.

Hope this info is useful to someone else,
Tom



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