Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 9 September 2010 08:50, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] <r.bhatia at ipax.at> wrote: > On 08.09.2010 23:52, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > >> My initial situation was as follows, node-01 primary for >> drbd_pbx_service_1 resource and node-02 primary for drbd_pbx_service_2 >> resource. >> I tried to get the node-03 as primary for both resources but I got the >> error message " Multiple primaries not allowed by config" >> here is the steps which I followed >> > > you have to demote the current primary to secondary before you promote > another node from secondary to primary. You are right, I ended up in this situation before I didn't follow the correct order. Following the correct order gave me the result I wanted. [root at node-01 ~]# drbd-overview 1:drbd_pbx_service_1 Connected Primary/Secondary UpToDate/UpToDate C r---- [root at node-01 ~]# drbdadm secondary drbd_pbx_service_1 [root at node-02 ~]# drbd-overview 2:drbd_pbx_service_2 Connected Primary/Secondary UpToDate/U pToDate C r---- [root at node-02 ~]# drbdadm secondary drbd_pbx_service_2 [root at node-02 ~]# drbd-overview 2:drbd_pbx_service_2 Connected Secondary/Secondary UpToDate [root at node-03 ~]# drbd-overview 1:drbd_pbx_service_1 Connected Secondary/Primary UpToDate/UpToDate C r---- 2:drbd_pbx_service_2 Connected Secondary/Secondary UpToDate/UpToDate C r---- [root at node-03 ~]# drbdadm primary drbd_pbx_service_2 [root at node-03 ~]# drbd-overview 1:drbd_pbx_service_1 Connected Secondary/Primary UpToDate/UpToDate C r---- 2:drbd_pbx_service_2 Connected Primary/Secondary UpToDate/UpToDate C r---- [root at node-03 ~]# drbdadm primary drbd_pbx_service_1 [root at node-03 ~]# drbd-overview 1:drbd_pbx_service_1 Connected Primary/Secondary UpToDate/UpToDate C r---- 2:drbd_pbx_service_2 Connected Primary/Secondary UpToDate/UpToDate C r---- > > I read the manual for allow-two-primary settings and basically states >> that I can't do what I want, since I use ext3 fs on drbd devices. >> But, I don't quite understand why, since these 2 resources are running >> on different disks and over different connections. I don't understand >> how the FS on them will get corrupted. >> > > that is true. but in your case, the solution is as stated above. > > cheers, > raoul > So, in single-primary mode and using ext3 fs type, a node can have the role of primary for 2 resources without any problems. Thanks, Pavlos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20100909/f64d92cd/attachment.htm>