Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
No, upgrading from 8.3.10 to 8.4.0 does NOT require full sync. On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:40:03AM -0400, Mark Deneen wrote: > I upgraded a simple 2 node (primary / secondary) system from 8.3.10 to > 8.4.0, and the secondary node showed up as Diskless. To do the > upgrade, I gracefully stopped both nodes, removed drbd, installed the > new drbd, brought up the primary and then the secondary. Very little, > if anything, should have been out of sync. > > This is the log from the secondary node when drbd started: > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Zx2t1LC4 > > /proc/drbd shows that the disk is not attached, so I used drbdadm to > attach. When doing so, it tells me this: "No usable activity log > found. Do you need to create-md?" > Following the suggestion, since I don't really mind a full resync to > test, I attempt to do create-md: Yes, if you re-create the meta data, you will have to do a full resync. You should not need to, however. You need to double check which kernel module version is running, and which userland you have installed. > So why is the AL unusable? After overwriting the meta data block, the > device attaches and does a full re-sync. Oddly enough, out of 7 > resources, 6 were diskless -- one was connected. You may at some stage have had the 8.4 userland, but 8.3 kernel module, or vice versa, or you tried to do things "by hand", "in stages", as you did with 8.3, but missing out on the additional steps now needed with 8.4. > Unfortunately, I don't have any devices in this scenario right now > since I needed to get things moving and did a full sync on all > resources. It doesn't look like I am the first to experience this: > http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2011-July/016592.html No. There are more userland steps involved with DRBD 8.4. Don't expect a "drbdadm attach" to work just so. Do "drbdadm -d adjust all", it will list the steps it thinks will be necessary. Do "drbdadm adjust all" to actually do them, or copy'n'paste them one by one if you want to do it "by hand". Then, if it stays diskless even after a "drbdadm adjust", look at the drbd kernel messages, and what it complains about. It *should* "just work"... :-/ Though, if trying to upgrade to 8.4 causes you pain, maybe rather stay with 8.3.12 for now. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com