[DRBD-user] initscript should be non-interactive

Martin Bene martin.bene at icomedias.com
Mon May 24 17:06:09 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


> So, what do you suggest ? -- Unfortunately heartbeat does not 
> take hints
> from DRBD. The only way to make sure that heartbeat does not 
> activate a
> resource is to not start it at all. 
> 
> We are aware of the problem and working on it. But do not 
> expect that we
> will change anything in DRBD-0.6.x .
> 
> Development happens at DRBD-0.7. Although it is not formal, I would 
> say we are already in a kind of feature freeze for 0.7.

Hmm, the obvious approach would be an option to return a resource to
unconfigured state if the 2nd node can't be reached within a timeout.
You'd end up with two configured and one unconfigured drbd device. In
the previously mentioned example.

If heartbeat subsequenctly tries to activate a resource on that
unconfigured device, it will fail, while still allowing other resources
to come up.

An administrator would be able to configure / start drbd + corresponding
services on whatever node he likes. None too sure how well heartbeat
would be able to further deal with this state of resources.

Bye, Martin




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