Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
My mistake cp -pr /var/spool/postfix to the drbd partition and change /etc/postfix/main.cf queue_directory = to the new drbd location Christopher Harrison wrote: > Lars Ellenberg wrote: >> / 2006-04-28 15:07:48 -0500 >> \ Christopher Harrison: >> >>> I love drbd and the ease of use. Kudos. >>> Lately I have been having problems with the drbd block device. The >>> problem manifests in closing a unix socket on the drbd device device. >>> The result freezes all io to the drbd devices (both primary and >>> secondary). The drbd device lock appears unrecoverable. I have >>> found a way to re sync the systems but it requires a reboot of both >>> machines to re sync the devices. After the reboot I force the >>> secondary to be primary and blow away the meta data from the former >>> primary device. Only after I destroy the meta data can I start my >>> re sync to the former primary. If I try to re sync with the old meta >>> data, the previous primary system locks up again when it tries to >>> become primary again. >>> >> >> I seriously doubt that this has anything to do with unix domain sockets. >> Anything else that may be the cause of your troubles? >> What exactly do you do to reproduce the problem? >> In case you have a simple step-by-step starting "from scratch", >> that leads you intro trouble always, we probably can reproduce this on >> some testcluster here, which would really help in debugging. >> >> > To reproduce the problem I installed postfix (simple install with FC5 > and yum) then I copied the /var/lib/postfix directory to the drbd > partition changed the postfix config to point the configdirectory and > partition-default to the drbd partition. Then I started postfix. > Postfix started just fine and there did not appear to be any problems > on startup but when I tried to kill postfix (stop and kill) the system > just hung. I was still able to login and start another ssh session > but the system load increased and the situation ensured. > > I hope this helps. > -Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user