[DRBD-user] bad side-effect: bug in inactive config stops other resources

Helmut Wollmersdorfer helmut.wollmersdorfer at fixpunkt.de
Thu Jan 24 10:09:30 CET 2013

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Am 23.01.2013 um 19:01 schrieb Dan Barker:

> If those time stamps are believable, then the problem occurred  
> before you started!
>
> I don't know of drbd accessing the config decks before a drbdadm  
> command, but it looks like you have proved that it happens. You  
> copied, it activated! Very strange result. I'll let the drbd authors  
> chime in on what new files in the config directory can cause before  
> you request something using them, but it looks like the way to do  
> this is to do the edit elsewhere, or "Save As" (:w <filename>).

So we learned from this (again): Never configure on the fly.

Edit your new resource-config in another place and then move it into / 
etc/drbd.d/.

>
> Actually, you have pacemaker and heartbeat in the mix. I imagine  
> they do watch directories for changes. It may not be drbd at all,  
> but drbdadm commands requested by those tools.

The error-message comes from drbd/user/drbdadm_parser.c ->  
vcheck_uniq(). It checks if certain keys like resource-name in the  
config are unique. For some reasons this check seems to be activated  
via pacemaker/crm -> ocf:linbit:drbd -> monitor(?) -- as far as I  
understand the code.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer




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