Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi,
I just ran into exactly the same problem on 32bit using the current svn
source. My metadata resides on an sw md5.
Any suggestion would highly be appreciated to resolve this.
Thanks,
Balint
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, alex crow wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to set up drbd on a large (5.1TB) nas box running SuSe with mainline
> kernel 2.6.18-5. Modules load, I can create the metadata with drbdadm create-md,
> but when I come to start up the device I get this:
>
> nas2:~ # drbdadm up all
> Failure: (115) Meta device is already mounted.
> Command 'drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 disk /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 flexible --set-defaults
> --create-device --on-io-error=detach' terminated with exit code 10
>
> There are no errors in syslog or dmesg. I thought that this was because I had
> created (and shrunk) and ext2 fs on the entire device (rather than on a
> partition) but I tried partitioning and then shrinking and get the same error.
>
> uname -a output:
>
> Linux nas2 2.6.18.5-smp #3 SMP Thu Dec 14 12:55:58 GMT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> Here is my drbd.conf
>
> #
> # drbd.conf example
> #
> # parameters you _need_ to change are the hostname, device, disk,
> # meta-disk, address and port in the "on <hostname> {}" sections.
> #
> # you ought to know about the protocol, and the various timeouts.
> #
> # you probably want to set the rate in the syncer sections
>
> #
> # NOTE common pitfall:
> # rate is given in units of _byte_ not bit
> #
>
> #
> # increase timeout and maybe ping-int in net{}, if you see
> # problems with "connection lost/connection established"
> # (or change your setup to reduce network latency; make sure full
> # duplex behaves as such; check average roundtrip times while
> # network is saturated; and so on ...)
> #
>
> #
> # Upgrading from DRBD-0.6.x
> #
> # Using the size parameter in the disk section (was disk-size) is
> # no longer valid. The agreed disk size is now stored
> # in DRBD's non volatile meta data files.
> #
> # NOTE that if you do not have some dedicated partition to use for
> # the meta-data, you may use 'internal' meta-data.
> #
> # THIS HOWEVER WILL DESTROY THE LAST 128M
> # OF THE LOWER LEVEL DEVICE.
> #
> # So you better make sure you shrink the filesystem by 128M FIRST!
> # or by 132M just to be sure... :)
> #
>
> skip {
> As you can see, you can also comment chunks of text
> with a 'skip[optional nonsense]{ skipped text }' section.
> This comes in handy, if you just want to comment out
> some 'resource <some name> {...}' section:
> just precede it with 'skip'.
>
> The basic format of option assignment is
> <option name><linear whitespace><value>;
>
> It should be obvious from the examples below,
> but if you really care to know the details:
>
> <option name> :=
> valid options in the respective scope
> <value> := <num>|<string>|<choice>|...
> depending on the set of allowed values
> for the respective option.
> <num> := [0-9]+, sometimes with an optional suffix of K,M,G
> <string> := (<name>|\"([^\"\\\n]*|\\.)*\")+
> <name> := [/_.A-Za-z0-9-]+
> }
>
> #
> # At most ONE global section is allowed.
> # It must precede any resource section.
> #
> global {
> # By default we load the module with a minor-count of 32. In case you
> # have more devices in your config, the module gets loaded with
> # a minor-count that ensures that you have 10 minors spare.
> # In case 10 spare minors are too little for you, you can set the
> # minor-count exeplicit here. ( Note, in contrast to DRBD-0.7 an
> # unused, spare minor has only a very little overhead of allocated
> # memory (a single pointer to be exact). )
> #
> # minor-count 64;
>
> # The user dialog counts and displays the seconds it waited so
> # far. You might want to disable this if you have the console
> # of your server connected to a serial terminal server with
> # limited logging capacity.
> # The Dialog will print the count each 'dialog-refresh' seconds,
> # set it to 0 to disable redrawing completely. [ default = 1 ]
> #
> # dialog-refresh 5; # 5 seconds
>
> # You might disable one of drbdadm's sanity check.
> # disable-ip-verification;
>
> # Participate in DRBD's online usage counter at http://usage.drbd.org
> # possilbe options: ask, yes, no. Default is ask. In case you do not
> # know, set it to ask, and follow the on screen instructions later.
> usage-count yes;
> }
>
>
> #
> # The common section can have all the sections a resource can have but
> # not the host section (started with the "on" keyword).
> # The common section must precede all resources.
> # All resources inherit the settings from the common section.
> # Whereas settings in the resources have precedence over the common
> # setting.
> #
>
> common {
> syncer { rate 90M; }
> }
>
> #
> # this need not be r#, you may use phony resource names,
> # like "resource web" or "resource mail", too
> #
>
> resource r0 {
>
> # transfer protocol to use.
> # C: write IO is reported as completed, if we know it has
> # reached _both_ local and remote DISK.
> # * for critical transactional data.
> # B: write IO is reported as completed, if it has reached
> # local DISK and remote buffer cache.
> # * for most cases.
> # A: write IO is reported as completed, if it has reached
> # local DISK and local tcp send buffer. (see also sndbuf-size)
> # * for high latency networks
> #
> #**********
> # uhm, benchmarks have shown that C is actually better than B.
> # this note shall disappear, when we are convinced that B is
> # the right choice "for most cases".
> # Until then, always use C unless you have a reason not to.
> # --lge
> #**********
> #
> protocol C;
>
> handlers {
> # what should be done in case the node is primary, degraded
> # (=no connection) and has inconsistent data.
> pri-on-incon-degr "echo O > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; halt -f";
>
> # The node is currently primary, but lost the after split brain
> # auto recovery procedure. As as consequence it should go away.
> pri-lost-after-sb "echo O > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; halt -f";
>
> # In case you have set the on-io-error option to "call-local-io-error",
> # this script will get executed in case of a local IO error. It is
> # expected that this script will case a immediate failover in the
> # cluster.
> local-io-error "echo O > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; halt -f";
>
> # Commands to run in case we need to downgrade the peer's disk
> # state to "Outdated". Should be implemented by the superior
> # communication possibilities of our cluster manager.
> # The provided script uses ssh, and is for demonstration/development
> # purposis.
> # outdate-peer "/usr/lib/drbd/outdate-peer.sh on amd 192.168.22.11
> 192.168.23.11 on alf 192.168.22.12 192.168.23.12";
> #
> # Update: Now there is a solution that relies on heartbeat's
> # communication layers. You should really use this.
> outdate-peer "/usr/sbin/drbd-peer-outdater";
> }
>
> startup {
> # Wait for connection timeout.
> # The init script blocks the boot process until the resources
> # are connected. This is so when the cluster manager starts later,
> # it does not see a resource with internal split-brain.
> # In case you want to limit the wait time, do it here.
> # Default is 0, which means unlimited. Unit is seconds.
> #
> # wfc-timeout 0;
>
> # Wait for connection timeout if this node was a degraded cluster.
> # In case a degraded cluster (= cluster with only one node left)
> # is rebooted, this timeout value is used.
> #
> degr-wfc-timeout 120; # 2 minutes.
> }
>
> disk {
> # if the lower level device reports io-error you have the choice of
> # "pass_on" -> Report the io-error to the upper layers.
> # Primary -> report it to the mounted file system.
> # Secondary -> ignore it.
> # "call-local-io-error"
> # -> Call the script configured by the name "local-io-error".
> # "detach" -> The node drops its backing storage device, and
> # continues in disk less mode.
> #
> on-io-error detach;
>
> # Controls the fencing policy, default is "dont-care". Before you
> # set any policy you need to make sure that you have a working
> # outdate-peer handler. Possible values are:
> # "dont-care" -> Never call the outdate-peer handler. [ DEFAULT ]
> # "resource-only" -> Call the outdate-peer handler if we primary and
> # loose the connection to the secondary. As well
> # whenn a unconnected secondary wants to become
> # primary.
> # "resource-and-stonith"
> # -> Calls the outdate-peer handler and freezes local
> # IO immediately after loss of connection. This is
> # necessary if your heartbeat can STONITH the other
> # node.
> # fencing resource-only;
>
> # In case you only want to use a fraction of the available space
> # you might use the "size" option here.
> #
> # size 10G;
> }
>
> net {
> # this is the size of the tcp socket send buffer
> # increase it _carefully_ if you want to use protocol A over a
> # high latency network with reasonable write throughput.
> # defaults to 2*65535; you might try even 1M, but if your kernel or
> # network driver chokes on that, you have been warned.
> # sndbuf-size 512k;
>
> # timeout 60; # 6 seconds (unit = 0.1 seconds)
> # connect-int 10; # 10 seconds (unit = 1 second)
> # ping-int 10; # 10 seconds (unit = 1 second)
>
> # Maximal number of requests (4K) to be allocated by DRBD.
> # The minimum is hardcoded to 32 (=128 kByte).
> # For high performance installations it might help if you
> # increase that number. These buffers are used to hold
> # datablocks while they are written to disk.
> #
> # max-buffers 2048;
>
> # When the number of outstanding requests on a standby (secondary)
> # node exceeds bdev-threshold, we start to kick the backing device
> # to start its request processing. This is an advanced tuning
> # parameter to get more performance out of capable storage controlers.
> # Some controlers like to be kicked often, other controlers
> # deliver better performance when they are kicked less frequently.
> # Set it to the value of max-buffers to get the least possible
> # number of run_task_queue_disk() / q->unplug_fn(q) calls.
> #
> # unplug-watermark 128;
>
>
> # The highest number of data blocks between two write barriers.
> # If you set this < 10 you might decrease your performance.
> # max-epoch-size 2048;
>
> # if some block send times out this many times, the peer is
> # considered dead, even if it still answers ping requests.
> # ko-count 4;
>
> # If you want to use OCFS2/openGFS on top of DRBD enable
> # this optione, and only enable it if you are going to use
> # one of these filesystems. Do not enable it for ext2,
> # ext3,reiserFS,XFS,JFS etc...
> # allow-two-primaries;
>
> # This enables peer authentication. Without this everybody
> # on the network could connect to one of your DRBD nodes with
> # a program that emulates DRBD's protocoll and could suck off
> # all your data.
> # Specify one of the kernel's digest algorithms, e.g.:
> # md5, sha1, sha256, sha512, wp256, wp384, wp512, michael_mic ...
> # an a shared secret.
> # Authentication is only done once after the TCP connection
> # is establised, there are no disadvantages from using authentication,
> # therefore I suggest to enable it in any case.
> # cram-hmac-alg "sha1";
> # shared-secret "FooFunFactory";
>
> # In case the nodes of your cluster nodes see each other again, after
> # an split brain situation in which both nodes where primary
> # at the same time, you have two diverged versions of your data.
> #
> # In case both nodes are secondary you can control DRBD's
> # auto recovery strategy by the "after-sb-0pri" options. The
> # default is to disconnect.
> # "disconnect" ... No automatic resynchronisation, simply disconnect.
> # "discard-younger-primary"
> # Auto sync from the node that was primary before
> # the split brain situation happened.
> # "discard-older-primary"
> # Auto sync from the node that became primary
> # as second during the split brain situation.
> # "discard-least-changes"
> # Auto sync from the node that touched more
> # blocks during the split brain situation.
> # "discard-node-NODENAME"
> # Auto sync _to_ the named node.
> after-sb-0pri disconnect;
>
> # In one of the nodes is already primary, then the auto-recovery
> # strategie is controled by the "after-sb-1pri" options.
> # "disconnect" ... always disconnect
> # "consensus" ... discard the version of the secondary if the outcome
> # of the "after-sb-0pri" algorithm would also destroy
> # the current secondary's data. Otherwise disconnect.
> # "discard-secondary"
> # discard the version of the secondary.
> # "panic-primary" Always honour the outcome of the "after-sb-0pri"
> # algorithm. In case it decides the the current
> # secondary has the right data, it panics the
> # current primary.
> # "suspend-primary" ???
> after-sb-1pri disconnect;
>
> # In case both nodes are primary you control DRBD's strategy by
> # the "after-sb-2pri" option.
> # "disconnect" ... Go to StandAlone mode on both sides.
> # "panic" ... Honor the outcome of the "after-sb-0pri" algorithm
> # and panic the other node.
> after-sb-2pri disconnect;
>
> # DRBD-0.7's behaviour is equivalent to
> # after-sb-0pri discard-younger-primary;
> # after-sb-1pri consensus;
> # after-sb-2pri disconnect;
> }
>
> syncer {
> # Limit the bandwith used by the resynchronisation process.
> # default unit is kByte/sec; optional suffixes K,M,G are allowed.
> #
> # Even though this is a network setting, the units are based
> # on _byte_ (octet for our french friends) not bit.
> # We are storage guys.
> #
> # Note that on 100Mbit ethernet, you cannot expect more than
> # 12.5 MByte total transfer rate.
> # Consider using GigaBit Ethernet.
> #
> rate 100M;
>
> # Normally all devices are resynchronized parallel.
> # To achieve better resynchronisation performance you should resync
> # DRBD resources which have their backing storage on one physical
> # disk sequentially. The express this use the "after" keyword.
> #after "r2";
>
> # Configures the size of the active set. Each extent is 4M,
> # 257 Extents ~> 1GB active set size. In case your syncer
> # runs @ 10MB/sec, all resync after a primary's crash will last
> # 1GB / ( 10MB/sec ) ~ 102 seconds ~ One Minute and 42 Seconds.
> # BTW, the hash algorithm works best if the number of al-extents
> # is prime. (To test the worst case performace use a power of 2)
> al-extents 257;
> }
>
> on nas2 {
> device /dev/drbd0;
> disk /dev/sdb;
> address 192.168.168.1:7788;
> flexible-meta-disk internal;
>
> # meta-disk is either 'internal' or '/dev/ice/name [idx]'
> #
> # You can use a single block device to store meta-data
> # of multiple DRBD's.
> # E.g. use meta-disk /dev/hde6[0]; and meta-disk /dev/hde6[1];
> # for two different resources. In this case the meta-disk
> # would need to be at least 256 MB in size.
> #
> # 'internal' means, that the last 128 MB of the lower device
> # are used to store the meta-data.
> # You must not give an index with 'internal'.
> }
>
> on nas3 {
> device /dev/drbd0;
> disk /dev/sdb;
> address 192.168.168.2:7788;
> flexible-meta-disk internal;
> }
> }
>
>
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