[DRBD-user] dealing with permanent node failure in primary/primary

Antonio Anselmi tony.anselmi at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 17:30:03 CEST 2011

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


yes, is what I thought.

Thanks for your very prompt response!

Antonio


2011/4/18 Digimer <linux at alteeve.com>:
> On 04/18/2011 10:34 AM, Antonio Anselmi wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Is there some advices or tips about dealing with permanent node
>> failure in case of a primary/primary configuration?
>>
>> I read the respective section in the Chapter 7 of DRBD users-guide
>> (Dealing with node failure) and it seems to me that there is no
>> special recovery procedure for permanent failure of a node in
>> primary/primary configuration, apart from issuing:
>>
>> drbdadm connect - on the survived node
>> and
>> drbdadm up - on the new-installed node
>>
>> (having said that the survived node is up and running w/out problems)
>>
>> Is that correct?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> The healthy node can run just fine on it's own when it's lost a peer in
> Primary/Primary. When you replace the lost node, just be sure it's
> drbd.conf matches (at least for the resources you care about) and that
> you've run 'drbdadm create-md /res/' on the new node before connecting
> for the first time. Once it connects, it should begin a full sync.
>
> --
> Digimer
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