[DRBD-user] examples of dual primary DRBD

Bart Coninckx bart.coninckx at telenet.be
Mon Oct 10 11:39:38 CEST 2011

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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On 10/10/11 11:30, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:31:28PM +0200, Bart Coninckx wrote:
>> On 10/08/11 00:25, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:21:08PM +0200, Bart Coninckx wrote:
>>>> On 10/06/11 22:03, Florian Haas wrote:
>>>>> On 2011-10-06 21:43, Bart Coninckx wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> would you mind sending me examples of your crm config for a dual primary
>>>>>> DRBD resource?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I used the one on
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-ocfs2-pacemaker.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and on
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Dual_Primary_DRBD_%2B_OCFS2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and they both result into split brain, except for when I start drbd
>>>>>> manually first.
>>>>>
>>>>> They clearly should not. Rather than soliciting other people's
>>>>> configurations and then try to adapt yours based on that, why don't you
>>>>> upload _your_ CIB (not just a "crm configure dump", but a full "cibadmin
>>>>> -Q") and your DRBD configuration to your pastebin/pastie/fpaste and let
>>>>> people tell you where your problem is?
>>>>
>>>> OK, I posted the drbd.conf on http://pastebin.com/SQe9YxhY
>>>>
>>>> cibadmin -Q is on http://pastebin.com/gTZqsACq
>>>>
>>>> The split brain logging is on http://pastebin.com/7unKKkdi .
>>>
>>> I somehow think you added some "--force" or "--overwrite-data-of-peer"
>>> to some drbdadm/drbdsetup primary invocation?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I re-created the metadata to start all over, and the
>>
>> drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary r_test
>>
>> command has to been done according to SLES docs for the initial sync.
>>
>> So if that particular command is the problem, we either have faulty
>> documentation or me wrongly interpreting the docs.
>
> Sure. On _one_ node only.
> Not on both, which I think you did.
>
> If you did not, you'd need to post your log from _before_, from where
> the drbd was last connected before it then detected the data divergence
> (aka "split-brain").
>

Spot on Lars. I did it on both. Looking for a big heavy hammer to hit me 
with, as the documentation clearly states this should happen on just one 
node. The rationale probably is that the metadata gets synced along with 
the normal data, correct?

thx,

B.





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