Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 23:41:51 Bruno Voigt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding the population of /dev/drbd/by-res/ path. > > I've done something like: > > 1) create new resource resA -> add to drbd.conf, device /dev/drbd0 > 2) drbdadm create-md resA > 3) drbdadm adjust resA > 4) drbdadm wait-connect resA, .., let it sync with other node .. > > 5) drbdadm down resA > 6) remove resource resA from drbd.conf > 7) create new resource resB -> add to drbd.conf, device /dev/drbd0 > 8) drbdadm create-md resB > 9) drbdadm adjust resB > 10) drbdadm wait-connect resB, .., let it sync with other node .. > > 11) Surprise, I see in /dev/drbd/by-res the old symlink named resA -> > ../../drbd0, and not the new link named resB -> ../../drbd0. > > Do I have to consider special steps to shutdown & cleanup resources > to keep the /dev/drbd/by-res/ mechanism functioning and > to prevent it from clashing with follow-up resource creations recycling > the same /dev/drbd device ? Thanks a lot for the report! That is something we discovered here as well in the last week. Should be fixed with rc2. Can you confirm ? -Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R) are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria.