Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Gerry Reno wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >> >> The drbd replica was running correctly until HA was installed? HA really >> doesn't any low-level stuff, but it is sensitive to performance issues >> such as freezes which might explain the problems occurring. >> >> Try to make a custom kernel with the MD patches and run the backup and >> see it it halts. >> >> -Ross >> > It's hard to say. I had installed DRBD about 3 days before I installed > heartbeat. There didn't seem to be any problems until heartbeat was > running. But that could just be coincidence. The problem could have > been there and just hadn't manifested itself yet probably because I > didn't have the backups running right then. The hangs don't occur > regularly. Sometimes it will go two, three days without hanging. Other > days it might hang twice in the same day. The only common observation > is that so far it's always on the primary. Never had the secondary > hang. So it's when the array is visible. > > I'm going to think about my options here. The last time I built a > custom kernel it took me forever to debug the thing and get it > compiled right. I might just shrink a filesystem/LV/md/partition and > put a small LV for the metadata directly on a new partition. All the > disk slots are full in the case so this looks like it might be the > easiest right now. > > Gerry > > Ross, I was researching Lars patch as you suggested and then I went over to check the linux-kernel list and I don't see any mention of it on the list. So did this patch make it in somewhere? It would be nice to know that it is in the newer kernels. Gerry