Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> Matthew Coene wrote: > > > Hello, > <SNIP> > My question is regarding some of the documentation which is unclear, to me > at least, largely I am sure because of my naivete. > > I have DRBD 0.6.11 setup and working largely on a custom 2.4.25 kernel. I > can syncronize files, etc. > > My problem comes in when I am trying to have the filesystem failover, it > seemingly does not happen automatically, and the documentation I have been > able to gather points to the script 'datadisk', which is a symlink to > /etc/rc.d/init.d/drbd, I have checked that out as well, and unless I am > missing something, there is no easy user friendly way to make this happen... > > Any direction or information you could provide would be appreciated. <SNIP> newbi to newbi http://faq.drbd.org/#general question 1 see heartbeat comment. find (or rebuild) the directory where you compiled drbd for me that is /tmp/drbd-0.6.10/ from the drbd package: file:///tmp/drbd-0.6.10/documentation/HOWTO/x120.html I do not know the vintage of it, but a version of the howto is available at: http://www.slackworks.com/~dkrovich/DRBD/heartbeat.html http://www.slackworks.com/~dkrovich/DRBD/index.html and this doc was very helpful in getting heartbeat going for me: http://linux-ha.org/download/GettingStarted.html Oh, and another hint I figured out yesterday: if you are on fedora core-1 the /etc/ha.d/haresources file example in: file:///tmp/drbd-0.6.10/documentation/HOWTO/x120.html reads "10-0-1-31.linux-ha.org 10.0.10.10/16 datadisk::drbd0 nfsserver" nfsserver is the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ script on the machine that starts the nfs server. on fedora core-1 that script is called simply nfs so the line would change to: "10-0-1-31.linux-ha.org 10.0.10.10/16 datadisk::drbd0 nfs" for fedora, either that or the howto needs to point to a copy of the version of the nfsserver script it means. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter