Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:26:16AM -0500, Greg Haase wrote:
> >> >>>My question is this:
> >> >>>How can i make one node take over all resources if local crossover
> >
> > you don't want to.
> >
> > if your lan connection dies,
> > and your lan connection was your replication link,
> > then you don't have replication anymore,
> > and so you would go online with non-current data.
> >
> > if currently your LAN connection is a direct "crossover cable",
> > why would you think any clients would benefit from failing over?
> >
> > if you change to a switched LAN, and add a ping node,
> > why do you think any clients would benefit from that?
> >
> > how can you be sure what component failed,
> > local NIC, cables, remote NIC, switch, driver, ...?
> >
> > what problem are you trying to solve?
> > I mean not "failing over when the LAN link dies".
> > please zoom out a little.
> >
> > from my point of view, it makes no sense to trigger a failover
> > because the replication link dies. it would even be harmful.
> > so don't do that.
>
> This speaks really to the question I posted earlier. I agree that you
> wouldn't want to fail-over, but... When your sync connection dies, how do
> you handle it?
>
> How do you prevent the other node from trying to come and and creating a
> split brain situation?
use the drbd-outdate-peer handler and configure dopd.
yes, it has some issues as well, I know. we fixed some of those only
last week. as long as you don't use too many drbd, it should work
reliably enough with heartbeat 2.1.2.
make sure you configure a timeout (the default timeout is 60seconds,
which is longer than several other timeouts and causes cascading timeout
trouble), in short:
outdate-peer "/usr/lib/heartbeat/drbd-peer-outdater -t 5";
> How do you get alerted that the sync is broken?
nagios pages you?
> How do you recover?
fix the replication link.
reconnect drbd, if it does not do so by itself.
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