[DRBD-user] Dual-primary split-brain recovery after reboot

Pete Ashdown pashdown at xmission.com
Wed Jun 22 23:56:18 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.


On 06/21/2011 04:09 PM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 04:03:31PM -0600, Pete Ashdown wrote:
>> On 06/21/2011 03:55 PM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:13:06AM -0600, Pete Ashdown wrote:
>>>> If a system properly shuts down drbd upon shutdown, then starts it up upon
>>>> reboot, I don't understand how there could be pending changes on it. 
>>>> Shouldn't it just sync up to its peer and go?  Instead I get split-brain
>>>> every time I reboot a node.  What settings are required to just go
>>>> secondary, connect, sync, and then go primary upon reboot?
>>> First make "unused" (umount, typically).
>>> Then make secondary.
>>>
>>> Only then disconnect.
>>>
>>> If you disconnect (by for example shutting down the network)
>>> while both are still in Primary role,
>>> you get what you observe.
>>>
>>> Double check the kill script order,
>>> or equivalent.
>> Thank you Lars.
>>
>> If I make secondary with the kill script, will it come back as primary upon
>> reboot, or do I need to specifically insert that into the startup script?
> DRBD always comes up as Secondary,
> and will be made Primary by either the drbd init script, if you so chose,
> or the cluster manager, via some "agent" scripts,
> or the admin/operator, either directly, or via some other scripts.
>
> DRBD does never go Primary by itself.
>
> And that is all in the User's Guide ;-)

Thanks, I actually did read that in the User's Guide, but where I'm
confused is that the Ubuntu 10.04 init script has this line in it:

    $DRBDADM sh-b-pri all # Become primary if configured

So if that is there, is all that I need is to insert a "$DRBDADM secondary
all" in the stop section?






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