Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2005-07-18 08:50:05 -0400 \ Tim Hibbard: > While NodeB is active I deleted a directory on the block device, excepting the > change to also reflect when NodeA became available again. Instead when NodeA > comes alive again it seems to sync NodeA to NodeB block. When heartbeat does > its recovery the directory and all it's contents are found on both block > devices again. As a note, while NodeB is primary, /proc/drbd does show > Primary/UnKnown and mount shows /dev/drbd3 mounted to /usr/local/leo. so. first, is it correct that you basically did: | leo1# grep "^ 3: cs:" /proc/drbd | 3: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ld:Consistent | | leo1# halt | | ... automatic failover by heartbeat to leo2 ... | | leo2# grep "^ 3: cs:" /proc/drbd | 3: cs:WFConnettion st:Primary/Unknown ld:Consistent | | leo2# rm -r /mountpoint/of/drbd3/some/previously/existing/directory | | ... switch on leo1 again ... | | leo2# grep "^ 3: cs:" /proc/drbd | 3: cs:SyncSource st:Primary/Secondary ld:Consistent | | ... | | leo2# grep "^ 3: cs:" /proc/drbd | 3: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ld:Consistent | | leo2# ..../hb_standby | | ... operator triggered heartbeat failback to leo1 again ... | | leo1# grep "^ 3: cs:" /proc/drbd | 3: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ld:Consistent | | leo1# ln -l /mountpoint/of/drbd3/some/previously/existing/directory | [ lists contents of supposedly removed directory ] if that is indeed what has happend, I'd be interessted in the syslog/kernel logs, to be able to explain to you why what happened was expected, even though you expected otherwise ;-) especially the lines looking similar to kernel: drbd0: drbd0_receiver [5482]: cstate WFConnection --> WFReportParams kernel: drbd0: Handshake successful: DRBD Network Protocol version 74 kernel: drbd0: Connection established. kernel: drbd0: I am(P): 1:00000002:00000001:00000004:00000001:10 kernel: drbd0: Peer(S): 1:00000002:00000001:00000003:00000001:01 kernel: drbd0: drbd0_receiver [5482]: cstate WFReportParams --> WFBitMapS kernel: drbd0: Primary/Unknown --> Primary/Secondary kernel: drbd0: drbd0_receiver [5482]: cstate WFBitMapS --> SyncSource kernel: drbd0: Resync started as SyncSource (need to sync 156640 KB [39160 bits set]). kernel: drbd0: Resync done (total 7 sec; paused 0 sec; 22377 K/sec) (including hostname and timestamp, obviously) if you did something else, please specify. cheers, -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schoenbrunner Str. 244, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.