Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Quoting Digimer <linux at alteeve.com>:
> On 07/19/2011 10:55 AM, listslut at outofoptions.net wrote:
>> I can create a Volume Group and the data gets replicated from one
>> machine to the other. This command fails though:
>>
>> [root at thing1 lvm]# /usr/sbin/lvcreate -n vmdata -l 69972 thing0
>> Logging initialised at Tue Jul 19 10:53:21 2011
>> Set umask to 0077
>> Setting logging type to disk
>> Finding volume group "thing0"
>> Archiving volume group "thing0" metadata (seqno 15).
>> Creating logical volume vmdata
>> Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/thing0" (seqno 16).
>> Error locking on node thing1.eyemg.com: device-mapper: create ioctl
>> failed: Device or resource busy
>> Error locking on node thing2.eyemg.com: device-mapper: create ioctl
>> failed: Device or resource busy
>> Failed to activate new LV.
>> Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/thing0" (seqno 17).
>> Wiping internal VG cache
>>
>> I don't know if this is a drbd issue or an lvm. I can't seem to find
>> anything on it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ken Lowther
>
> Obvius question first; Is the DRBD in Primary?
It was primary/primary but this gave me an idea. I changed the
'other' node to secondary and it did change the error message some in
that it gives a 'uuid not found' error instead on the second resource
instead of the lock error.
[root at thing1 lvm]# /usr/sbin/lvcreate -n vmdata -l 69972 thing0
Logging initialised at Tue Jul 19 11:09:02 2011
Set umask to 0077
Setting logging type to disk
Finding volume group "thing0"
Archiving volume group "thing0" metadata (seqno 19).
Creating logical volume vmdata
Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/thing0" (seqno 20).
Error locking on node thing1.eyemg.com: device-mapper: create ioctl
failed: Device or resource busy
Error locking on node thing2.eyemg.com: Volume group for uuid not
found: hqcys8c9fDoBtX4UGLV0lmAbTZ7FMW8516YBHLfh64TzKNxRBqDH1wYg7IQHMRul
Failed to activate new LV.
Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/thing0" (seqno 21).
Wiping internal VG cache
>
> Please share more details about your config so that folks can better
> help you, rather than making wild stabs in the dark. :)
>
Using locking 3 in lvm with clvmd running.
resource drbd0 {
on thing1.eyemg.com {
disk /dev/cciss/c0d1;
device /dev/drbd0;
meta-disk internal;
address 192.168.244.1:7788;
}
on thing2.eyemg.com {
disk /dev/cciss/c0d1;
device /dev/drbd0;
meta-disk internal;
address 192.168.244.2:7788;
}
Ken