[DRBD-user] problem setting up a logical volume with drbd

Digimer linux at alteeve.com
Tue Jul 19 17:37:10 CEST 2011

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On 07/19/2011 11:13 AM, listslut at outofoptions.net wrote:
> 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

Can I assume then that the cluster itself is running and quorate? Also,
is anything else (trying to) use the backing devices? Does this error
occur on both nodes?

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