Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2004-09-14 17:12:19 +0200 \ Benoit.Ropartz at alcatel.fr: > Hello, > > My Primary node (A) crash and Heartbeat activate services on other node > (B). > > DRBD is Primary on B (cs=WFConnection). > > When A restart, i see these messages in syslog : > > Jan 2 05:59:23 SML_A kernel: drbd3: Found 6 transactions (324 active > extents) in activity log. > Jan 2 05:59:23 SML_A kernel: drbd3: Marked additional 131584 KB as > out-of-sync > > > When DRBD connection is up, a synchronisation is activate with A as > SyncTarget and B as > SyncSource. > > It seem that in this situation, DRBD doesn't use AL of node A ??? is it > true... > when drbd comes up, it recognizes whether it was cleanly shutdown or crashed last time. if it crashed, and it has been primary before the crash, it uses the activity log to mark the corresponding regions dirty (we used to call them extents, but we will change terminology here, because "extent" is already a meaningful keyword in the lvm/device-mapper world). if it was Secondary before the crash, there is no point in useing the activity log at this time: it was not active. does that help? Lars Ellenberg -- please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.