[DRBD-user] Primary dies during sync

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Thu Sep 28 11:45:24 CEST 2006

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/ 2006-09-28 11:27:41 +0200
\ Lars Ellenberg:
> / 2006-09-28 09:47:39 +0200
> \ KarinMiers:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > we use drbd (different versions 0.6 to 0.7) for several services and never observed any real problems until now - I 
> > set up drbd for our web server and the primary node died during the first sync without any error messages.
> 
> then, what exactly makes you think drbd is at fault?
> 
> > Both systems run SuSE 10.0, Kernel 2.6.13-15.10-smp, drbd drbd-0.7.13-2. The drbd is on a  raid5  (ICP raid adapter 
> >  GDT8623RZ), ext3 file system.

ok. I maybe have to correct me.
from the drbd changelog:

0.7.14 (api:77/proto:74)
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 * Fixed a SMP race condition introduced in 0.7.12, that could cause
   a lockup on a busy node in Primary/SyncSource state.

so probably you hit that one...

please upgrade to drbd 0.7.21 for now.

thanks,

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