[DRBD-user] Greater then 4TB

Lee Christie Lee at titaninternet.co.uk
Mon Jul 14 23:04:47 CEST 2008

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


Hmm. We didn't try any active/active stuff and since we also ran centos
5.2/8.2.6 I would guess that therein lies the difference and possibly
issue. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nathan at robotics.net [mailto:nathan at robotics.net] 
> Sent: 14 July 2008 19:59
> To: Lee Christie
> Cc: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
> Subject: RE: [DRBD-user] Greater then 4TB
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Lee Christie wrote:
> 
> > During testing we knocked up a pair of servers with 5TB. 
> Seemed to work
> > just fine, taken at face value. However we didn't put much 
> data on the
> > volume so it is possible that it doesn't work with >4TB and 
> we were just
> > lucky.
> 
> Centos 5.2 kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen running DRBD 8.2.6
> 
> Box with valid data comes up fine with:
> 
> /sbin/service cman start
> /sbin/service drbd start
> /sbin/service clvmd start
> /bin/mount -t gfs /dev/mirror/share /share
> 
> I try to bring up 2nd primary, shortly after drbd start comes 
> up I get a 
> kernel panic, unfortunately, I am not able to get the full 
> crash on my 
> screen and nothing shows up in any logs. Below is what I was 
> able to make 
> out on the screen, it is typed in by hand so...
> 
> Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffff885efa11>] :drbd:w_make_resync_request+0x191/0x3f7
>   [<ffffffff885ef731>] :drbd:drbd_worker+0x2a3/0x3f2
>   [<ffffffff8028773e>] __wake_up_common+0x33/0x68
>   [<ffffffff8860532a>] :drbd:drbd_thread_setup_0xa2/0x18b
>   [<ffffffff80260b24>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
>   [<ffffffff88605288>] :drbd:drbd_thread_setup_0x0/0x18b
>   [<ffffffff80260b1a>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
> 
> Code: 44 0f a3 20 19 d2 32 db 85 d2 0f 95 c3 eb 20 75 05 83 cb ff
> RIP [<ffffffff885ece4e>] :drbd:drbd_bm_test_bit+0x8b/0xd1
> 
> drbd.conf:
> resource r0 {
>     protocol C;
>     handlers {
>       local-io-error "echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; halt -f";
>       outdate-peer "/usr/lib/heartbeat/drbd-peer-outdater -t 5";
>     }
> 
>     startup {
>       degr-wfc-timeout 120;    # 2 minutes.
>     become-primary-on both;
>     }
> 
>     disk {
>       on-io-error   detach;
>       max-bio-bvecs 1;
>     }
> 
>     net {
>      allow-two-primaries;
>       after-sb-0pri discard-least-changes;
>       after-sb-1pri discard-secondary;
>       after-sb-2pri call-pri-lost-after-sb;
>       rr-conflict call-pri-lost;
>     }
> 
>     syncer {
>       rate 100M;
>     }
> 
>     on xen0.nyc.blinkmind.net {
>       device     /dev/drbd0;
>       disk       /dev/sdb;
>       address    172.16.0.220:7789;
>       flexible-meta-disk  internal;
>     }
> 
>     on xen1.nyc.blinkmind.net {
>       device    /dev/drbd0;
>       disk      /dev/sdb;
>       address   172.16.0.221:7789;
>       meta-disk internal;
>     }
> }
> 

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