[DRBD-user] Newbie confusion

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Mon Oct 31 10:45:23 CET 2005

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Hi Philipp, Hi Etienne,

Philipp Reisner schrieb:
> Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2005 13:27 schrieb Etienne van Tonder:
> 
>>Hi Phil,
>>
>>Thank you for the reply it helped clear up a few things for me and I have
>>now got everything configured and working.
>>
>>Couple of other questions for which I could not find a definitive answer:
>>
>>1. How do I start drbd/heartbeat at boot time. I'm using Suse 9.3Pro, what
>>would be the best method for loading these in such a way as to make sure
>>drbd is finished loading before HB starts or is that not important. Should
>>I simply do a chkconfig drbd 35, chkconfig heartbeat 35 as I read somewhere
>>or add it to the modprobe.conf.local file?? Once drbd is loaded then I
>>think HB should be able to do the rest, but I want to make sure drbd is
>>loaded before this happens..
>>
> 
> 
> drbd's init script takes care of loading the module with the right
> module parameters...
> 
> Some time ago I agreed with heartbeat's author, Alan Robertson, which
> boot sequence codes our start scripts use, so that DRBD is strated
> before heartbeat. I am not sure if SuSE's packages goes that way.

yes, it goes that way.

> Just make sure that DRBD is started before heartbeat...
> 
> 
>>3. What should I normally expect to happen if I shutdown both machines and
>>only bring back the primary, will it run in standalone mode allowing me
>>access to the shared data. Once it detects the secondary will it then
>>connect and sync? What would happen if I did the reverse?
>>
> 
> 
> Read the description of wfc-timeout and degr-wfc-timeout again.
> 
> -Phil
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Andreas



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