[DRBD-user] Can't find LV from second node on a Primary/Primary DRBD Device

David Coulson david at davidcoulson.net
Mon Oct 3 13:57:57 CEST 2011

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


  Are you using clustered LVM? If not, you probably should be.

You could try deactivating the VG then reactivating it and seeing if the 
new primary sees the LV.

On 10/3/11 6:02 AM, markus at marcap.de wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to build an HA setup with virtual machines on a two hardware 
> node setup. I already setup a nested LVM DRBD configuration. But from 
> the second node I can't see the lv's from the drbd device; pvscan 
> displays it.
>
> Has anybody an idea whats wrong with my setup? I think I need a 
> primary/primary drbd device because if one hardware node fails I want 
> to start the KVM container from the other one; therefore I need the 
> latest data of the KVM container.
>
> Please find some logs below...
>
> Thanks a lot for your help in advance!
>
> Best regards,
> Markus
>
> Client00:
> ---------
> client00:~# lvscan
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/pve/swap' [15.00 GB] inherit
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/pve/root' [96.00 GB] inherit
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/pve/data' [1.32 TB] inherit
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/pve/r0' [60.00 GB] inherit
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/replicated/vm-101-disk-1' [10.00 GB] inherit
> client00:~# pvscan
>   PV /dev/sda2    VG pve          lvm2 [1.82 TB / 343.99 GB free]
>   PV /dev/drbd0   VG replicated   lvm2 [60.00 GB / 50.00 GB free]
>   Total: 2 [1.88 TB] / in use: 2 [1.88 TB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]
> client00:~# cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.3.10 (api:88/proto:86-96)
> GIT-hash: 5c0b0469666682443d4785d90a2c603378f9017b build by 
> phil at fat-tyre, 2011-01-28 12:17:35
>  0: cs:Connected ro:Primary/Primary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r-----
>     ns:81968 nr:28 dw:28 dr:84752 al:0 bm:15 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 
> wo:b oos:0
>
> Client01:
> ---------
> client01:~# lvscan
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/pve/swap' [4.00 GB] inherit
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/pve/root' [96.00 GB] inherit
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/pve/data' [194.14 GB] inherit
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/pve/r0' [60.00 GB] inherit
> client01:~# pvscan
>   PV /dev/sda2    VG pve          lvm2 [698.13 GB / 343.99 GB free]
>   PV /dev/drbd0   VG replicated   lvm2 [60.00 GB / 50.00 GB free]
>   Total: 2 [758.13 GB] / in use: 2 [758.13 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]
> client01:~# cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.3.10 (api:88/proto:86-96)
> GIT-hash: 5c0b0469666682443d4785d90a2c603378f9017b build by 
> phil at fat-tyre, 2011-01-28 12:17:35
>  0: cs:Connected ro:Primary/Primary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r-----
>     ns:28 nr:81968 dw:81948 dr:2096 al:2 bm:14 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 
> ep:1 wo:b oos:0
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