[DRBD-user] Re: OOPS with drbd, lvm and XFS on debian xen 2.6.16

Igor Morgado igormorgado.listas at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 21:10:38 CEST 2006

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


I will double check Xen and drbd0.7 tunning. I have read some xen wikis and
documentations and nothing, I asked on IRC (freenode) and they said me that
have nothing to do. Anyway I will look a little more.

Thank you one more time.


On 7/10/06, Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote:
>
> / 2006-07-06 13:59:15 -0300
> \ Igor Morgado:
> > Lars..
> >
> > My environment "needs" of drbd8. Because live migration works flawlessly
> with
> > pri/pri resources. Using sec/pri I need to do a big trip to achieve
> this.
> >
> > sleep the vm
> > put local disk as secondary
> > copy the vm state to remote server
> > put remote disk as primary
> > load the vm state.
> >
> > This procedure takes 20-30 seconds to complish. I can even keep the
> session
> > (because tcp/ip timeout)
> >
> > With pri/pri I do the following:
> > put remote disk as primary
> > start xen live migration
> > put local disk as secondary
> >
> > The procedure takes 1-3 seconds, and I have only 1 second of delay in
> session
> > (most of users cannot even notice the migration).
>
> are you sure that the latest xen does not behave better with drbd-0.7?
> I think there have been some adjustments to xen as to when exactly in
> the migration process it needs the "shared" block device.
>
> > My question is:
> >
> > Will be any compatibility with drbd7 and 8? there is a way to migrate
> drbd7
> > metadata to 8 without data loss?
>
> you will be able to migrate drbd 0.7 -> drbd 8 without data loss,
> but probably you'd need a downtime. the drbdmeta command is able to
> convert meta data of different versions. but currently drbd8 and drbd0.7
> don't understand each other on the wire, so you cannot do roling
> upgrades. we did some preparations for a compatibility layer within the
> drbd communications, but we did not implement it at all (yet).
>
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