Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2006-07-26 09:52:02 -0700 \ Tom Brown: > On Sunday 23 July 2006 15:33, Tom Brown wrote: > > I'm running an older version of drbd (0.6.12). I am planning on upgrading > > to 0.7.20 this week. However, I'm not sure if that will necessarily solve > > my problem. I have three devices and the third one fails to sync. > <snip> > > 2: cs:BrokenPipe st:Primary/Secondary ns:5521284 nr:0 dw:3352 dr:5525309 > > pe:7085 ua:0 > > NEEDS_SYNC > > > > They all sync through the same 100 Mb pipe. I'm guessing the third > > one, /dev/nb2, is timing out because of too much traffic. That would explain > > why I see the status as 'BrokenPipe'. Is this a reasonable scenario? > <snip> > > In response to my own question, I was able to resolve the broken pipe. I added > a third network interface to each node. I dedicated the new subnet to the > third drbd device. The third drbd device was able to sync without a problem. > > Hope this info is useful to someone else, > Tom you can also assign different "sync groups" so the devices would sync one after the other, not all at the same time. maybe 0.6 is missing this feature still, though, I'd have to check that. -- : 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.