Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:20:40PM +0200, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:56:33AM -0400, Ryan Steele wrote: > > I saw someone else post something similar to this a few weeks ago, but > > didn't see any response to it. I've just set up DRBD 0.7.23 with > > Heartbeat2 on two future database server. However, DRBD seems to have > > corrupted my multi-disk RAID1. I booted a Knoppix CD on the affected > > machines, removed the DRBD rc.d scripts, and rebooted and things were > > fine. To verify, I ran update-rc.d to recreate the symbolic links, and > > rebooted again to find that it again would not boot. Moreover, even > > removing the rc.d links did not help - the array is, I fear, irreparably > > damaged. > > > > Is there any acknowledgement of this bug, or are there any suggestions > > as to how one might go about fixing it? I can't even boot into the > > machine to run mdadm and repair the array, though maybe I can do that > > from the Knoppix CD... > > I think... > the issue is that md raid5 wait. after reading your post closely again, you should not be affected by this. you said you use raid _1_ not raid5? hm... so there may be something else? anyways. drbd does not corrupt md raid (or anything, for that matter; I would have noticed for sure!) anywhere on boxes I was involved, or have access to. and that are quite a few. so if this is a real issue for you, and you can reproduce this at will, there is something "special" in your setup... try to _not_ mkfs /dev/something , then resize, but to mkfs /dev/drbdX ... try a different kernel, try with small arrays first, so you can more easily verify (by comparing against checksums/images) how/where the corruption takes place. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.