[DRBD-user] DRBD + LVM2 Setup on RHEL5.1

Pascal Charest pascal.charest at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 19:43:11 CET 2008

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Chris Raver <chris at alphabay.com> wrote:
> Will DRBD work in dual primary mode using an ext3 file system?
>
>  Sent from my iPhone
>
>  On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Greg Haase <haaseg at onefreevoice.com>
>  wrote:
>
>
>
>  > Acually, it appears from your output that syncing is in progress:
>  >
>  >>        [>...................] sync'ed:  9.9% (9899/10979)M
>  >          ^^^^^^^^
>  >
>  > I think Lars is trying to point out that you are using a non-
>  > journaling
>  > filesystem (ext2) for a primary/primary setup. You probably want to a
>  > filesystem that is better suited for that kind of thing. Now, I
>  > don't know
>  > why he won't just come out and say it that way.
>  >
>  > -Greg
>  >
>  >> Here's my new config.  I ran pvcreate /dev/sda3 and created a
>  >> Volume Group
>  >> called VolGroup01 and a Logical Volume called LogVol00.  I ran mke2fs
>  >> /dev/drbd0 and was able to mount the filesystem. But it doesn't
>  >> appear to
>  >> be syncing with the other node.  I'm not sure if it's because it's
>  >> just
>  >> not done with the initial sync or if I did something wrong.  The
>  >> output of
>  >> cat /proc/drbd is below.
>  >>
>  >>  on qa1r2cls {
>  >>    device    /dev/drbd0;
>  >>    disk      /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00;
>  >>    address   10.1.50.202:7789;
>  >>    meta-disk internal;
>  >>  }
>  >>  on qa1r3cls {
>  >>    device    /dev/drbd0;
>  >>    disk      /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00;
>  >>    address   10.1.50.203:7789;
>  >>    meta-disk internal;
>  >>  }
>  >>
>  >> version: 8.2.5 (api:88/proto:86-88)
>  >> GIT-hash: 9faf052fdae5ef0c61b4d03890e2d2eab550610c build by
>  >> root at qa1r2cls,
>  >> 2008-
>  >> 03-20 18:46:40
>  >> 0: cs:SyncSource st:Primary/Primary ds:UpToDate/Inconsistent C r---
>  >>    ns:1540676 nr:609708 dw:1219368 dr:931310 al:278 bm:57 lo:0 pe:0
>  >> ua:0
>  >> ap:0
>  >>        [>...................] sync'ed:  9.9% (9899/10979)M
>  >>        finish: 8:12:46 speed: 332 (376) K/sec
>  >>        resync: used:0/31 hits:101691 misses:144 starving:0 dirty:0
>  >> changed:144
>  >>        act_log: used:0/127 hits:152137 misses:287 starving:0 dirty:9
>  >> changed:278
>  >>
>  >> -----Original Message-----
>  >> From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com
>  >> [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Chris Raver
>  >> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 9:29 AM
>  >> To: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
>  >> Subject: RE: [DRBD-user] DRBD + LVM2 Setup on RHEL5.1
>  >>
>  >> I think this will change my configuration because I am planning on
>  >> using
>  >> LMV2.  If my config looks something like this:
>  >>
>  >> Perhaps something like:
>  >>
>  >>   on alice {
>  >>     device /dev/drbd0;
>  >>     disk   /dev/vg_01/lv_r0;
>  >>     ...
>  >>
>  >> When I run pvcreate do I use /dev/sda3 and create a volume group
>  >> called
>  >> vg_01. Or do I run pvcreate /dev/drbd0 (which isn't working right
>  >> now).
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> -----Original Message-----
>  >> From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com
>  >> [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Andy Diller
>  >> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 8:58 AM
>  >> To: Florian Haas
>  >> Cc: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
>  >> Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD + LVM2 Setup on RHEL5.1
>  >>
>  >> Perhaps something like:
>  >>
>  >>   on alice {
>  >>     device /dev/drbd0;
>  >>     disk   /dev/vg_01/lv_r0;
>  >>     ...
>  >>
>  >> Would make more sense.
>  >>
>  >> Anyone working w/ LVM will not be using the /dev/sd[x] or /dev/hd[x]
>  >> obviously.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> -andy
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> ----- "Florian Haas" <florian.haas at linbit.com> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>>> What device is /dev/drbd/r0? Most block devices in RHEL are going
>  >>>> to
>  >>> be
>  >>>> /dev/sd[a-d] (SCSI or SATA) or /dev/hd[a-d] (IDE).
>  >>>
>  >>> Ouch, I hadn't realized that part of the user's guide was so easily
>  >>> misunderstood.
>  >>>
>  >>> resource r0 {
>  >>>  ...
>  >>>  on alice {
>  >>>    device /dev/drbd0;
>  >>>    disk   /dev/drbd/r0;
>  >>>    ...
>  >>>  }
>  >>>  on bob {
>  >>>    device /dev/drbd0;
>  >>>    disk   /dev/drbd/r0;
>  >>>    ...
>  >>>  }
>  >>> }
>  >>>
>  >>> This means the backing devices are LVM logical volumes named "r0"
>  >>> in a
>  >>> Volume Group named "drbd". It says so in the text above the config
>  >>> snippet, but apparently that is easily overlooked.
>  >>>
>  >>> I will change this to a generic foo/bar "naming convention" to avoid
>  >>> confusion.
>  >>>
>  >>> Thanks for pointing this out.
>  >>>
>  >>> Cheers,
>  >>> Florian
>  >>>
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