[DRBD-user] Frequent disconnect when doing backup.

Pascal BERTON pascal.berton3 at free.fr
Sun Aug 28 15:18:17 CEST 2011

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Pascal,

 

One thing is unclear : did it used to work in the past (and if yes what has changed lately that could explain this behavior) or is it a new feature you’ve just added to your customer’s config ?

Furthermore, I suspect you have scripted all this process haven’t you ? If so, have you identified which step induces this communication disruption? Have you tried to execute manually this sequence and then at what step does it happen ?

 

Best regards,

 

Pascal.

 

De : drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] De la part de Pascal Charest
Envoyé : samedi 27 août 2011 22:52
À : drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
Objet : [DRBD-user] Frequent disconnect when doing backup.

 

Hi, 


 

I have a small issue with one of my DRBD setup. When my backup is running (-see lower for setup and backup details), i`m getting those errors:

 

Aug 27 10:24:18 pig-two -- MARK --

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: peer( Secondary -> Unknown ) conn( Connected -> NetworkFailure ) pdsk( UpToDate -> DUnknown )

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: asender terminated

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Terminating asender thread

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: sock was reset by peer

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: _drbd_send_page: size=4096 len=3064 sent=-32

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Creating new current UUID

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block now.

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: tl_clear()

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Connection closed

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( NetworkFailure -> Unconnected )

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: receiver terminated

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: receiver (re)started

Aug 27 10:27:26 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( Unconnected -> WFConnection )

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Handshake successful: Agreed network protocol version 88

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Peer authenticated using 20 bytes of 'sha1' HMAC

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( WFConnection -> WFReportParams )

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Starting asender thread (from drbd0_receiver [3066])

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: data-integrity-alg: md5

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: peer( Unknown -> Secondary ) conn( WFReportParams -> WFBitMapS ) pdsk( DUnknown -> UpToDate )

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block now.

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( WFBitMapS -> SyncSource ) pdsk( UpToDate -> Inconsistent )

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Began resync as SyncSource (will sync 2160 KB [540 bits set]).

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block now.

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Resync done (total 1 sec; paused 0 sec; 2160 K/sec)

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( SyncSource -> Connected ) pdsk( Inconsistent -> UpToDate )

Aug 27 10:27:27 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block now.

Aug 27 10:44:19 pig-two -- MARK --

 

and

 

Aug 27 11:04:19 pig-two -- MARK --

Aug 27 11:20:36 pig-two kernel: drbd0: _drbd_send_page: size=4096 len=4096 sent=-104

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: peer( Secondary -> Unknown ) conn( Connected -> NetworkFailure ) pdsk( UpToDate -> DUnknown )

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Creating new current UUID

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block now.

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: asender terminated

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Terminating asender thread

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: sock was shut down by peer

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: tl_clear()

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Connection closed

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( NetworkFailure -> Unconnected )

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: receiver terminated

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: receiver (re)started

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( Unconnected -> WFConnection )

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Handshake successful: Agreed network protocol version 88

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Peer authenticated using 20 bytes of 'sha1' HMAC

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( WFConnection -> WFReportParams )

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Starting asender thread (from drbd0_receiver [3066])

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: data-integrity-alg: md5

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: peer( Unknown -> Secondary ) conn( WFReportParams -> WFBitMapS ) pdsk( DUnknown -> UpToDate )

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block now.

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( WFBitMapS -> SyncSource ) pdsk( UpToDate -> Inconsistent )

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Began resync as SyncSource (will sync 5788 KB [1447 bits set]).

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block now.

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Resync done (total 1 sec; paused 0 sec; 5788 K/sec)

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: conn( SyncSource -> Connected ) pdsk( Inconsistent -> UpToDate )

Aug 27 11:20:37 pig-two kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block now.

Aug 27 11:44:19 pig-two -- MARK --

 

Analysis: it look like the network is failing, then everything - under a second - re-connect, resync and work again. There are no impact on the 'production'. Anyone got some kind of idea, why ? Is it an error in my setup/design (see lower).

 

 

Some background on the setup: 

 

It's an old version. Very old in fact - roadmap to upgrade has been drafted and submitted to client - I`m just wondering about the specific issue here... I want to be sure it's not an infrastructure design problem.

pig-two:~# cat /proc/drbd

version: 8.2.6 (api:88/proto:86-88)

GIT-hash: 3e69822d3bb4920a8c1bfdf7d647169eba7d2eb4 build by root at pig-two, 2008-08-19 15:02:28

 0: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r---

    ns:650469968 nr:0 dw:648856776 dr:16725553 al:5463958 bm:22571 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 oos:0

 

We are speaking, of:

 -   4x SAS 15k drives in a hardware raid-5 array (DELL Perc5)... presented to the OS as /dev/sda. 

 -   /dev/sda is the back-end device for DRBD... presented to the OS as /dev/drbd0

 -   /dev/drbd0 is a lone "physical volume" in a volume group (called SAN) from which Logical Volume are created. Those are NOT locally mounted.

 -   those logical volumes are exported with vblade (AoE protocol, layer 2) to some other physical system (Xen dom0) where they are used as backend device (/dev/etherd/e0.1) for root volume of virtual system

 

Everything work fine, but when I do backup, I follow this process: 

 -  mount a CIFS exported share over the network

 -  take a LV snapshot, mount it, and copy everything to the CIFS share. 

 -  unmount snapshot, delete it... do for all LV.

 -  unmount network share

 

The backup are consistent and valid (tested)...  What have I missed ? Should I move away from AoE to a Linux based iSCSI ?  

 

P.

 

--

Pascal Charest - Cutting-edge technology consultant
https://www.labsphoenix.com 

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