Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Lars Ellenberg
<lars.ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:46:10PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote:
>> I'm in the process of building my cluster. I have one node up named
>> a.example.org. However, when I boot this machine (a), the boot
>> process blocks with this message:
>>
>> DRBD's startup script waits for the peer node(s) to appear.
>> - In case this node was already a degraded cluster before the
>> reboot the timeout is 120 seconds. [degr-wfc-timeout]
>> - If the peer was available before the reboot the timeout will
>> expire after 0 seconds. [wfc-timeout]
>> (These values are for resource 'vm1-root'; 0 sec -> wait forever)
>> To abort waiting enter 'yes' [ 340]:
>>
>> In my case, the peer (I assume b is the peer) has never been
>> available. Therefore, this node should have been a degraded cluster
>> before the reboot, hence, the timeout should be 120 seconds, but the
>> counter keeps on ticking and ticking, so it seems there's a problem
>> here.
>>
>> Did I do something wrong? How do I convince a that it is a degraded
>> cluster and to come up with my drbd devices ready?
>
> misconception about when degr-wfc-timeout is used.
> please read
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.drbd/15849/focus=15854
Thank you. Ok, I see the logic of this behavior now. Until I have my
two nodes fully online for the first time I need to temporarily set
degr-wfc-timeout to 0.
Now, for the moment, when I type 'yes' to abort waiting and the
machine fully comes up, when I try to mount one of these
never-yet-degraded resources, I get this error:
mount: block device /dev/drbd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: Wrong medium type
I find that I cannot mount this resource until I again do:
drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary vm2-root
Why do I need to do this each time I boot? Is there some way to avoid
this until I get my other half of the resource up?
Michael Grant