[DRBD-user] multiple primaries using mutilple volumes as protocol A

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 03:59:00PM -0800, Carsonguy wrote:
> 
> Hi ;
> I am using protcol A, I am looking at using the allow-mutilple primaries
> flag. 
> I am setting up multiple volumes 0 and 1, I tried having volume 0 primary on
> Node A and volume 1 primary on node B, and it through an error. Is it
> advisable to do this? I realize I can not have any volume primary on both
> nodes at the same time. 

You can not do on different volumes in the same resource.

Use one resource each.

resource testing {
	...
	on X { ... }
	on Y { ... }
}

resource production {
	...
	on X { ... }
	on Y { ... }
}

and, during normal operation,
have production be primary on "X"
and testing be primary on "Y".

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