[DRBD-user] strange split-brain problem

Klaus Darilion klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at
Thu Dec 9 18:18:40 CET 2010

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Am 09.12.2010 17:04, schrieb Lars Ellenberg:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:22:34PM +0100, Klaus Darilion wrote:
>> After that I manually attached the device without problems.
>>
>> Is this really a problem with a too small device or may it be that
>> the device wasn't existing at all?
>
> You have to investigate your boot process more closely then.
> It is likely still racy somewhere,
> possibly with asynchronous udev involvement.

Finally I came to the same conclusion. I think if /etc/hosts is broken 
then some upstart/udev service takes longer and drbd is started before 
the volume-manager/device-manager offers the logical volumes.

Probably this upstart/sysVinit mixture of Ubuntu is just a big pain.

thanks
Klaus



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