[DRBD-user] Xen + DRBD problem

Wendell Dingus wendell at bisonline.com
Sun Sep 28 15:30:52 CEST 2008

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----- "Wendell Dingus" <wendell at bisonline.com> wrote: 
> 
> Xen + DRBD problem... CentOS 5.2 32-bit with working 20GB shared DRBD partition. 
> 
> # rpm -qf /etc/xen/scripts/block-drbd 
> drbd82-8.2.6-1.el5.centos 
> # drbdadm state r0 
> Primary/Primary 
> 
> Works fine referencing it as a phy: device... 
> # grep disk domutest 
> disk = [ "phy:/dev/drbd0,xvda,w" ] 
> 
> # xm create domutest 
> Using config file "./domutest". 
> Started domain domutest 
> 
> Not so much using the DRBD supplied Xen block handler... 
> # grep disk domutest 
> disk = [ "drbd:r0,xvda,w" ] 
> 
> # xm create domutest 
> Using config file "./domutest". 
> No handlers could be found for logger "xend" 
> Error: Disk isn't accessible 
> 
> Any suggestions? 
> Thanks... 
> 
> 
> ----- "Oliver Welter" <mail at oliwel.de> wrote: 
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> > Hi All, 
> > 
> > I used drbd 0.7 a while with protocol B which did fine. 
> > 
> > I migrated the servers and due to the comment in the sample config, that 
> > currently C is considered faster than B, I switched to C but now get 
> > extreme iowaits even in really low load situations. 
> > The system is a dual CPU AMD Quad Opteron and system load raises to >15 
> > and I get 80% waits. DRBD runs over a low latency (~0.1ms) Gigabit Link. 
> > 
> > I now wanted to switch the system to protocol B or even A, is there a 
> > way to do so without shutting down the disks? I have a total of 8 drbd 
> > devices on the box. 
> > 
> > TIA 
> > 
> > Oliver 
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