[DRBD-user] fs errors on replacing secondary's disk

george young gry at ll.mit.edu
Tue Jun 22 16:43:02 CEST 2004

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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:24:18 +0200
Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com> threw this fish to the penguins:
> / 2004-06-15 12:08:37 -0400
> \ george young:
> > [drbd 0.6.10, SuSE 8.3 x86 linux, 2.4.20, lsi megaraid scsi 320-2]
> > nodes are "pig-app" and "pig-db".
> > 
> > One of the disks on node "pig-db" failed, (RAID 5, so no crash), so I
> > forced pig-db to secondary for both drbd file systems and rebooted pig-db without
> > drbd.  After replacing the disk, and wiping and reconfiguring the RAID
> > box(don't ask why...), I need to bring the system back up as drbd secondary.
> > 
> > Starting drbd seems fine:
...
> > May  9 16:00:14 pig-db drbd: 'drbd_db' SyncingQuick finished, issue drbdsetup /dev/nb1 secondary_remo
> 
> SyncingQuick assumes you have "almost" up-to-date data on the lower
> level disk. you actually have a blank disk. drbd has no way to know that,
> so you must tell it...
> 
> > I do "datadisk drbd_home start", which switches drbd_home partition to primary and mounts it:
...
> > May  9 17:38:46 pig-db datadisk: 'drbd_db' activated
> > 
> > But I get a stream of kernel errors, like:
> >   is_tree_node: node level 0 does not match to the expected one 1
...
> either (now) do drbdsetup /dev/nbX replicate (on the Secondary!,
> out-of-date  node! not on the other...)
> or (before you "drbd start" it) do rm /var/lib/drbd/*
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This worked perfectly, thanks much!

-- George
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