[DRBD-user] DRBD primar/primary

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:40:04AM -0500, James Wilson wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I haven't had this happen on its own. I was just 
> testing by pulling the network cable to see if everything would failover 
> and noticed it when the other server came back up. Also to manually 
> resync them I just issue the command drbdadm invalidate "r0" or whatever 
> your resource is. Is this the wrong way to do it?

well, by "invalidating" you force a _full_ sync.  the "discard-my-data"
thing still does an incremental sync, omitting those blocks of which we
know for sure that they did not change.

[...]

> >you could configure some "auto-recovery strategies", see after-sb-#pri
> >settings in drbd.conf.
> >
> >to get them reconnected and resynchronized manually,
> >you'd have to typically
> > chose one side to do
> >   umount
> >   drbdadm -- --discard-my-data connect XY
> > and maybe on the other side do normal
> >   drbdadm connect XY
> >
> >we are going to make this less annoying than it is now by introducing a
> >write_quorum and IO-freeze on disconnect, then we can timeout for a
> >possible imminent reconnect (network hiccup only), and after that
> >timeout arbitrate (triggered by the cluster manager) which side may
> >continue, and which has to be fenced (or let it self-fence...).
> >
> >but for the time being, yes, I know, two-primaries is still "inconvenient"
> >when you have a flaky network.

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