[DRBD-user] drbd device

Ralf Gross Ralf-Lists at ralfgross.de
Wed Nov 29 20:10:36 CET 2006

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Kamran Nisar schrieb:
> test1:~ # cat /proc/drbd
> version: 0.7.14 (api:77/proto:74)
> SVN Revision: 1989 build by root at test1, 2005-11-11 14:50:53
> 0: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ld:Consistent
>    ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
> 1: cs:Unconfigured
> 
> 
> test2:~ # cat /proc/drbd
> version: 0.7.18 (api:78/proto:74)
> SVN Revision: 2186 build by lmb at chip, 2006-05-04 17:08:27
> 0: cs:Connected st:Secondary/Primary ld:Consistent
>    ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
> 1: cs:Unconfigured
> 
> 
> is the above correct ? should the st:/primary/Secondary should be same on
> both the machines ?

This is correct. Have a look at 

http://www.linux-ha.org/DRBD/FAQ#head-988086376cbd00bdcc9c9d199317af5f7550c5c1

|st:Local/Remote
|
|  state, the respective node's role for this device

 
> secondly i'm using the folling snip in my conf file
> 
>  on test1 {
>    device     /dev/drbd0;
>    disk       /dev/md0;
>    address    192.168.2.61:7788;
>    meta-disk  internal;
>  }
> 
>  on test2 {
>    device    /dev/drbd0;
>    disk      /dev/md0;
>    address   192.168.2.62:7788;
>    meta-disk internal;
>  }
> 
> 
> 
> I have linux RAID0 on both the server under /dev/md0
> 
> now the thing i can't figure out, is where does the data actually goes on
> the server1 is how to  mount /dev/md0 to store some data on it.. because
> when i try to mount it, it says drive is busy, probably becuase of sumthing
> drbd is doing ..

You don't mount /dev/md0, you create a filesystem on your drbd0 device
and mount that.

Ralf




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