[DRBD-user] Trouble with drbd-0.7.19.

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Wed Jun 14 16:15:32 CEST 2006

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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:34:56PM +0530, Milind Dumbare wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 	I have installed DRBD on my machines ( One is "Dhruva" Fedora Core 5
> i386 and other is "Tucker" Ubuntu 5.0 x86_64 )
> I patched Linux-2.6.15 with drbd-0.7.19 patches and installed the
> kernel. DRBD is built-in in kernel. ( Not Module)
> 
> following is my /etc/drbd.conf
> ===============================
> resource RES1 {
>   protocol C;
>   incon-degr-cmd "wall Beware";
> 
>   on dhruva {
>     device    /dev/drbd0;
>     disk      /dev/hda8;
>     address   192.168.1.18:7789;
>     meta-disk   internal;
>   }
>   on tucker {
>     device    /dev/drbd0;
>     disk      /dev/sda5;
>     address   192.168.1.5:7789;
>     meta-disk   internal;
>   }
> }
> =================================
> 
> So as far as I understood "dhruva" is primary and "tucker" is secondary,
> am I right?

No. The one that you define as primary, in the command line, gets to be
primary. There is no default.

> So when I will write any data to /dev/hda8 of dhruva it will be
> replicated to /dev/sda5, isn't it?

No. You have to use /dev/drbd0, not the backend devices.

> I have /dev/hda8 of Dhruva of 10GB size and /dev/sda5 of Tucker of 21GB
> size, so it wont cause problem, which is discussed in FAQs, right?

Yes, you'll be limited to ~ 10GB, though.

> Please help me out with abouve three questions.

Please read the documentation...

-- 
lfr
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