[DRBD-user] communication constantly terminated, always re-syncing

Cory Coager ccoager at davisvision.com
Tue Mar 8 21:34:57 CET 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 03/08/2011 11:25 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> So, did you read that thread,
> and the things it refers to?
>
> In short: to be able to distinguish
> 	a) "buffers modified in flight, *by upper layers*",
> from
> 	b) "data modified in flight by something else"
> you need to upgrade to drbd 8.3.10.
> Symptoms will not change, but for a) you get an additional
> log message saying so on the Primary.
>
> If for each such disconnect you get a corresponding log line
> saying "Digest mismatch, buffer modified by upper layers during write:",
> then that is what happens.
>
> If you get some disconnects without that log message, something else is
> going on, suggesting other sources of modification of in-flight data,
> including, but not limitted to, broken hardware.
> *NOTE* again: you need DRBD 8.3.10 to get that log message at all.
>
> For some more background info, and suggestions what to do:
> read that thread I referred to, and the things it refers to.
Yes, that was quite a book to read.  Sounds like a big mess that is 
still unresolved.  I guess I should hope that my only problem is a 
broken NIC and not something else going on.  I'm going to try to add 
some NIC's to the server when I find a time window and see if that fixes 
the problem.



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