[DRBD-user] testing drbd without real deices

Maros Timko timkom at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 10:57:43 CEST 2009

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Rupertt,

TOE - TCP Offloading Engine is HW support of network card to improve
performance. It is usually enabled by default on your network card.
Check "ethtool -k" option and search on this list.
Tino
2009/7/30 Rupert <rupertt at gmail.com>

> Maros Timko wrote:
>
>> Heiko,
>> whhich machine crashes? Primary only, both?
>> I think it is primary but only in case xen VM is running on top of DRBD.
>> You can prevent crashes by disabling TOE. Or use DRBD 8.3.2, AFAIK there
>> should be a parameter that should help in such setups.
>> Check older posts in this list.
>>  Tino
>>
>> Hello Tino,
>
> in one case I have a primary on each machine, means 2 drbd devices.
> In the other case we have only 1 drbd device, and there only the primary
> crashed.
> What means TOE, havent found anything about that yet?
> Someone on this list suggested that I should use protocol A, but we dont
> want to loose
> any data, so we cant use that.
> I am thinking about updating, but I first have to test if these packages
> work with our system,
> CentOS 5.x.
>
> so long
>
> 2009/7/27 Heiko <rupertt at gmail.com <mailto:rupertt at gmail.com>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Martin Gombac <martin at isg.si
>>     <mailto:martin at isg.si>> wrote:
>>
>>        In my humble opinion, drbd does't crash if you loose network
>>        connections. :-)
>>        Would be a first in history.
>>        Maybe heartbeat puts both sources to primary and when they
>>        join you got split brain.
>>        In this case you didn't set up heartbeat correctly.
>>
>>    Hello M.,
>>
>>    i had some people here that confirmed a bug in protocol C that
>>    causes these crashes.
>>    I also thought of heartbeat, but I now have 2 ucast devices and we
>>    still have crashes and
>>    no entries in the logfile that say it does a reboot on purpose:
>>
>>    only these messages:
>>
>>    heartbeat[2880]: 2009/07/27_11:59:37 ERROR: glib: Unable to send
>>    [-1] ucast packet: No such device
>>    heartbeat[2880]: 2009/07/27_11:59:37 ERROR: write_child: write
>>    failure on ucast eth0.: No such device
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    my ha config looks like this
>>
>>    #use_logd on
>>    logfile /var/log/ha-log
>>    debugfile /var/log/ha-debug
>>    logfacility local0
>>    keepalive 2
>>    deadtime 10
>>    warntime 3
>>    initdead 20
>>    udpport 694
>>    ucast eth0 172.17.8.201
>>    ucast eth0 172.17.8.202
>>    ucast eth1 172.31.0.1
>>    ucast eth1 172.31.0.2
>>    node xen-a1.fra1
>>    node xen-b1.fra1
>>    auto_failback on
>>
>>    haresources:
>>
>>    xen-a1.fra1 drbddisk::blrg  xen::blrg-vm1
>>
>>
>>    thnx a lot
>>
>>
>>    .r
>>
>>
>>        Regards,
>>        M.
>>
>>
>>        On 27, Jul2009, at 1:47 PM, Heiko wrote:
>>
>>            Hello,
>>
>>            i have to convince my boss that our server crashes i
>>            reported on this list are due
>>            to a non exsiting dedicated line! We have all our drbd
>>            traffic routed through switches
>>            and they often just crash.
>>
>>            Now I have to create a test setup to show them that when I
>>            plug the corg/shutdown the networkdevice
>>            the machines tend to crash.
>>            Since I dont have any spare machines I would like to use
>>            loopback devices,
>>            are these supported by now? I found some list entries that
>>            say this is not supported by drbd!
>>            would this be enough to get the machines crashing?
>>            We use drbd8.0 and 8.2 and have on both these crashes.
>>
>>
>>            cheers.
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