[DRBD-user] Temporary dual primary-mode during xen live migration ?

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Thu Dec 18 20:20:01 CET 2008

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:11:28PM +0100, Christoph Adomeit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would love the idea to live migrate xen-domU's in rare cases during 
> maintenance.
> 
> But I hate the idea to generally allow dual primary mode for those drbd
> resources

I don't think it is even necessary.
But I have to double check that...

> because of the risk to accidently mount a filesystem
> twice and destroy it.
> 
> Is it possible to switch drbd resources to dual-primary mode at runtime
> and later switch them back ?

disconnect both nodes (both go to StandAlone)

reconnect both with the two-primaries setting toggled.
(should do a very brief re-sync, and then be Connected again).

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