Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
rois wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:44 +0000, Massimo Mongardini wrote:
>
>> Rois,
>> thanks for this
>>
>> rois wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 22:22 +0000, Massimo Mongardini wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Rois,
>>>> I don't have such sections on my drbd.conf is that relevant to
>>>> drbd 8.x perhaps. My versions are drbd 0.7.24 and heartbeat 2.1.2-3
>>>> I planned a downtime on Saturday during which I will try and see if I
>>>> can reproduce the fault again.
>>>> cheers
>>>> Massimo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'm using drbd 8 and don't know anything about 7 but part of what is in
>>> these sections is the outdate-peer info. One of my initial problems
>>> when I was setting up was that a failure would not fail over because the
>>> secondary was being outdated (and thus not able to become primary) when
>>> the primary failed. Someone who is more familiar with drbd 7 will have
>>> to help you if this section is not important to drbd7.
>>>
>>>
>> I can fail over, and did plenty of tests with programs writing on the
>> shared nfs and rebooting the primary and they were all satisfactory,
>> but for Murphy's law (and perhaps cosmic rays!) for once that it had
>> to do it in production ... it failed!
>>
> When you say you did fail over tests do you mean you did
> "heartbeat standby"
> or did you actually pull the power plug or all the network cables? I've
> noticed that the drbd/HA acts different when you do nice fail over test
> (rebooting the machine or doing "heartbeat standby") as apposed to "down
> right nasty" fail over tests (pull the power plug or all network cables
> at once to simulate something very bad happening.)
>
> I'm fairly paranoid about how stuff works so I like pushing the limit.
>
> Rois
>
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Rois,
you're right I just tested standby and plain shutdown. I just
recently managed to acquire remote bios access to this machine, so I
will soon tell you (and the list) if this is replicable by resetting the
power.
cheers
M.
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