Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:39:34PM +0000, Ben Clewett wrote: > > > Hi Lars, > > I completely understand, sorry for the missunderstanding. > > I obviously thought your comment 'it lies to the kernel about having > written stuff to disk' meant that it confuses DRBD. Thanks for the > clarification. > > In which case my problem of DRBD locking is still outstanding. this thread has become quite long, and intermixes clear hardware issues with possible drbd issues. I try to figure out whether there may be some problems in drbd, which may be caused by bugs or limitations in drbd, despite your hardware problems with your NIC. so when does this "drbd locking" occur, and what are the symptoms/implications? * kernel version, drbd version, protocol (a,b,c), which connection state? * during such a "lock", what does /proc/drbd say? any kernel log messages? -- : Lars Ellenberg http://www.linbit.com : : DRBD/HA support and consulting sales at linbit.com : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.