I am already running heartbeat but didn't know that I needed to use it to manage DRBD. I though that DRBD would manage promotion internally.<div><br></div><div>Where is the how-to?</div><div><br></div><div>I have just been reading through the user guide:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/users-guide.html">http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/users-guide.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>And the install config walk though here:</div><div><a href="http://www.drbd.org/docs/about">http://www.drbd.org/docs/about</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cameron</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:55 AM, David Coulson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@davidcoulson.net">david@davidcoulson.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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You have to elevate the secondary to primary on node failure. Heartbeat
is a good way to do this.<br>
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Did you read the HOW-TO?<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 3/18/10 1:51 PM, Cameron Smith wrote:
</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;white-space:pre">Why
does data not become active on secondary when primary is down?</span>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;white-space:pre">I have a two node
setup and live data is on /dev/drbd1 on node1 (primary).</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;white-space:pre">When primary goes
down why is that data then not visible or accessible at /dev/drbd1 on
node2 (secondary)?</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;white-space:pre">Thanks,</span></font></div>
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