[DRBD-user] drbd force reboot

Felix Frank ff at mpexnet.de
Thu May 19 09:34:10 CEST 2011

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On 05/18/2011 05:33 PM, Joe Cabrera wrote:
> We have two machines setup with DRBD currently. The block device DRBD
> was not up to date and thus I thought DRBD was not running. I took one
> of the machine down for maintenance. When I took it down, the other
> machine performed a force restart. I take determined from the logs that
> the DRBD daemon forced a reboot. 
> 
> This is a major problem, I do not want DRBD to force machines to
> shutdown. Why is this occurring?

Shooting in the dark: Your primary was possibly running diskless and
suddenly found itself with no way of performing block I/O on the
resource in question. Hence the panic reboot.

The logs should shed some light on this.

Regards,
Felix



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