[DRBD-user] missing /dev/drbd0

K.Radacki K.Radacki at uni-wuerzburg.de
Sat Feb 18 02:04:17 CET 2012

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Dear all,
yesterday I had to turn off for an hour all our servers (replacement of
emergency power generator and simulation of failure).
After reboot the main server "lost" all 3 internet interfaces. For that
reason DRBD failed to start. After some time I figured out, that aliases
for NICs were not loaded (no idea why, but they disappeared from
/etc/modprobe.conf). Again reboot network was there but still no DRBD.

The output of "service drbd status" is not complete:

"service drbd status"
drbd driver loaded OK; device status:
version: 8.0.16 (api:86/proto:86)
GIT-hash: d30881451c988619e243d6294a899139eed1183d build by
mockbuild at v20z-x86-64.home.local, 2009-08-22 13:26:57
m:res  cs  st  ds  p  mounted  fstype

However "/proc/drbd"  seems OK

version: 8.0.16 (api:86/proto:86)
GIT-hash: d30881451c988619e243d6294a899139eed1183d build by
mockbuild at v20z-x86-64.home.local, 2009-08-22 13:26:57
 0: cs:Connected st:Secondary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r---
    ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
        resync: used:0/61 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0
        act_log: used:0/127 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0

I've found out that block file /dev/drbd0 was missing after reboot.
I've tried to add the /dev/drbd0 manually with
"mknod -m 0660  /dev/drbd0 b 147 0" and restart of drbd
but it didn't change the situation.
The same results form "service drbd status"
After reboot again no /dev/drbd0.

As last resort I've tried to regenerate whole DRBD from secondary node.
 service drbd stop
 rm -f /dev/drbd0
 drbdadm create-md r0
 service drbd start
Still no /dev/drbd0 and no output from "service drbd status" (only the
"cat /prc/drbd" shows now that the drive is synchronizing).


I would be very grateful for any help
kris




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