[DRBD-user] DRBD9 BUG (drbdmanage-proxmox): Unable to clone disk

Roland Kammerer roland.kammerer at linbit.com
Mon Jun 19 13:46:31 CEST 2017

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 07:46:29AM +0000, Dominic Pratt wrote:
> Hi there guys,
> 
> I haven't found a bugtracker, so I hope this is the right place to submit a bug...
> 
> We're using DRBD9 in a PVE4-Cluster with 3 Nodes, one of them being a no-storage node. We're unable to clone disks/VMs between nodes, because the created disk needs a few seconds to become available.
> 
> Package:
> drbdmanage-proxmox 1.0-1
> File:
> DRBDPlugin.pm
> Function:
> alloc_image
> Error-Message:
> create full clone of drive scsi0 (VG1:vm-113-disk-1)
> drive mirror is starting for drive-scsi0
> drive-scsi0: Cancelling block job
> drive-scsi0: Done.
> drbd error: Could not forward data to leader

Looks like the node was not able to communicate to the leader node via
TCP port 6996.

> TASK ERROR: storage migration failed: mirroring error: VM 113 qmp command 'drive-mirror' failed - Could not open '/dev/drbd/by-res/vm-113-disk-1/0': No such file or directory
> 
> Workaround/Bugfix:
>     ($rc, $res) = $hdl->auto_deploy($name, $redundancy, 0, 0);
>     check_drbd_res($rc);
> 
> +    warn "sleeping 10s";
> +    sleep(10);
> 
>     return $name;
> }

Hm. The solution is to have a number of nodes up and running that can
reach a quorum. How someone ensures that is IMO out of scope for
drbdmanage itself. Basically it can only fail in one way or the other,
which it did.

Regards, rck



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