[DRBD-user] Setting primary on reboot

Cameron Smith velvetpixel at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 16:24:28 CET 2010

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


>From the user guide:

"Dealing with temporary primary node failure

>From DRBD's standpoint, failure of the primary node is almost identical to a
failure of the secondary node. The surviving node detects the peer node's
failure, and switches to disconnected mode. DRBD does *not* promote the
surviving node to the primary role; it is the cluster management
application's responsibility to do so.

When the failed node is repaired and returns to the cluster, it does so in
the secondary role, thus, as outlined in the previous section, no further
manual intervention is necessary. Again, DRBD does not change the resource
role back, it is up to the cluster manager to do so (if so configured).

DRBD ensures block device consistency in case of a primary node failure by
way of a special mechanism. For a detailed discussion, refer to the section
called “The Activity Log”<http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-activity-log.html>
."


There are no instructions on what to tell the cluster manager to do.

When node1 (primary) goes down how do I get heartbeat to promote secondary
to primary so that the filesystem at /dev/drbd1 on node2 can become
mountable?

When node1 comes back up how to I configure heartbeat to tell node1 to
become primary after it has been updated (synced) with the data from node2
that was created during node1's downtime?



On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Cameron Smith <velvetpixel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you for the response!
> Here is the output of cat /proc/drbd for both node1 and node2 before and
> after node1(primary) gets rebooted.
>
>
> Before reboot:
> [root at node1 ~]# cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.0.16 (api:86/proto:86)
> GIT-hash: d30881451c988619e243d6294a899139eed1183d build by
> mockbuild at v20z-x86-64.home.local, 2009-08-22 13:26:57
>
>  1: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r---
>     ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
> resync: used:0/61 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0
> act_log: used:0/127 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0
>
> [root at node2 ~]# cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.0.16 (api:86/proto:86)
> GIT-hash: d30881451c988619e243d6294a899139eed1183d build by
> mockbuild at v20z-x86-64.home.local, 2009-08-22 13:26:57
>
>  1: cs:Connected st:Secondary/Primary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r---
>     ns:0 nr:4493035 dw:4493035 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
> resync: used:0/61 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0
>  act_log: used:0/127 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0
>
>
> After reboot of node1:
> [root at node1 ~]# cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.0.16 (api:86/proto:86)
> GIT-hash: d30881451c988619e243d6294a899139eed1183d build by
> mockbuild at v20z-x86-64.home.local, 2009-08-22 13:26:57
>
>  1: cs:WFConnection st:Secondary/Unknown ds:UpToDate/DUnknown C r---
>     ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
> resync: used:0/61 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0
> act_log: used:0/127 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0
>
> [root at node2 ~]# cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.0.16 (api:86/proto:86)
> GIT-hash: d30881451c988619e243d6294a899139eed1183d build by
> mockbuild at v20z-x86-64.home.local, 2009-08-22 13:26:57
>
>  1: cs:StandAlone st:Secondary/Unknown ds:UpToDate/DUnknown   r---
>     ns:0 nr:4493035 dw:4493043 dr:85 al:1 bm:1 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
> resync: used:0/61 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0
>  act_log: used:0/127 hits:1 misses:1 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:1
>
>
> I am using heartbeat and this is my haresources contents:
> node1.example.com drbddisk::r0 Filesystem::/dev/drbd1::/data::ext3
> 10.10.2.21 mysqld httpd
>
> Should there be anything else in the haresources file that forces node1 to
> primary on reboot?
>
> Thank you,
> Cameron
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Reindy <reindy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi, what is your current status? please brief us the details so that we
>> can help you.
>>
>> Example: give your output of "cat /proc/drbd"
>>
>> you need to make sure that both of your nodes are sync and in WFConnection
>> status,.. I still don't have the clear picture on your current situation,
>> please let us know therefore we would able to help you.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Cameron Smith <velvetpixel at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I have two nodes.
>>>
>>> Node one I set to proimary with:
>>> drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary r0
>>>
>>> That command does not survive a reboot of node1 so How do get get node1
>>> to regain primary status after it comes back online?
>>>
>>> When node1 comes back online will node2 write the data to node1 that was
>>> written during the downtime for node1?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Cameron
>>>
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>>
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