Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2004-07-23 13:55:52 +0200 \ Martin Bene: > Hi Lars, > > > > Timeout on initialising the internal metadata while resync > > > is already > > > running (and this slowing things down) on the 1st device? > > > > yes, this may be the cause. > > you happen to use the same underlying physical devices? > > Yes, same phys. device for all 4 partitions (web, two databases, > test/experimaental fuzz) Several drbd devices needed for independent > failover/failback. ok. that explains part of it. as a work around, it may (or may not) help to don't do drbdadm up all when you first create the devices, but to do it in two steps: both nodes: this will initialise the meta data blocks # drbdadm attach all and here you go into connected mode, resync starts (?) # drbdadm connect all choose the primary node: # drbdadm primary all now, if this was creating the devices for the first time, resync at (?) will not start, but complain about "both nodes inconsistent". and the primary all in the previous step will fail, too, complaining about "no good data" or something. then you have to # drbdadm -- --do-what-I-say primary all and it will make it primary, and resync will start. lge