[DRBD-user] Mystery with online verify and Out of sync sectors.

Florian Haas florian.haas at linbit.com
Mon Jun 16 22:10:57 CEST 2008

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Dimitrij,

which file system are you using on top of DRBD?

Cheers,
Florian

> Hi,
>
> we have big trouble with DRBD an online verification. We have two
> servers (Supermicro wuth Areca 1680/SAS and 4 x SAS Harddrive in raid10).
> On these servers runs Debian system witch MySQL and own vanila kernel
> (newest 2.6.25.6) and drbd-8.2.6.
>
> Everytimes after 'drbdadm verify all' we got lot of Out of sync
> messages. It makes no sense where 'drbdadm verify all' runs. Messages
> comes from Primary or secondary.
>
> I'v tried to disconnect all applications and run 'drbdadm verify all' on
> idle drbd devices: same issue.
> I'v tried to invalidate one drbd device, runs full sync and directly
> after full sync runs 'drbdadm verify all': same issue.
>
>
> And i can see that write operations blocks on Primary during 'drbdadm
> verify all' runs. Not in a baginning but after 20-30 mins.
>
>
> Hardware is new, has own NIC for DRBD traffic with cross over cabel. All
> RAM is ECC and does not seems any problems. Raid controllers does not
> seems any problems too.
>
> Any idee why it happens?
>
> Our config:
>
> global {
>     minor-count 8;
>     usage-count no;
> }
>
>
> common {
>   syncer {
>         rate 20M;
>
>   }
> }
>
> #
> # this need not be r#, you may use phony resource names,
> # like "resource web" or "resource mail", too
> #
>
> resource mysql {
>
>   protocol C;
>
>   handlers {
>     pri-lost-after-sb "echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; halt -f";
>     local-io-error "echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; halt -f";
>     outdate-peer "/usr/lib/heartbeat/drbd-peer-outdater -t 5";
>     pri-lost "echo pri-lost. Have a look at the log files. | mail -s
> 'DRBD Alert
> ' MAIL";
>     split-brain "echo split-brain. drbdadm -- --discard-my-data connect
> $DRBD_RE
> SOURCE ? | mail -s 'DRBD Alert' MAIL";
>     out-of-sync "echo out-of-sync. drbdadm down $DRBD_RESOURCE. drbdadm
> ::::0 se
> t-gi $DRBD_RESOURCE. drbdadm up $DRBD_RESOURCE. | mail -s 'DRBD Alert'
> MAIL";
>   }
>
>   startup {
>     wfc-timeout  0;
>     degr-wfc-timeout 120;    # 2 minutes.
>   }
>
>   disk {
>     on-io-error   detach;
>     no-disk-flushes;
>     no-md-flushes;
>   }
>
>   net {
>     max-buffers     2048;
>     ko-count 4;
>     cram-hmac-alg "sha1";
>     shared-secret "secret";
>     after-sb-0pri disconnect;
>     after-sb-1pri disconnect;
>     after-sb-2pri disconnect;
>     rr-conflict disconnect;
>     data-integrity-alg "md5";
>   }
>
>   syncer {
>     rate 20M;
>     al-extents 3833;
>     cpu-mask 1;
>     verify-alg md5;
>   }
>
>   on host-a {
>     device     /dev/drbd0;
>     disk       /dev/vg00/dbmysql;
>     address    192.168.3.1:7788;
>     meta-disk  /dev/vg00/drbdmeta[0];
>   }
>
>   on host-b {
>     device    /dev/drbd0;
>     disk      /dev/vg00/dbmysql;
>     address   192.168.3.2:7788;
>     meta-disk  /dev/vg00/drbdmeta[0];
>   }
> }
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dimitrij HIlt






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