[DRBD-user] sync doesnt work

Walter Robert Ditzler ditwal001 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 15:04:30 CEST 2012

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lars,

when i do a:

root at srv-ldeb-xen001:~# /etc/init.d/drbd status
drbd driver loaded OK; device status:
version: 8.3.11 (api:88/proto:86-96)
srcversion: 0D2B62DEDB020A425130935
m:res         cs            ro                 ds                 p  mounted
fstype
0:server01    Connected     " C
1:server02    Connected     Primary/Secondary  UpToDate/UpToDate  C
2:server03    Connected     Primary/Secondary  UpToDate/UpToDate  C
3:server04    Connected     Primary/Secondary  UpToDate/UpToDate  C
4:server05_1  Connected     Primary/Secondary  UpToDate/UpToDate  C
5:server05_2  Connected     Primary/Secondary  UpToDate/UpToDate  C
6:server06    Connected     Primary/Secondary  UpToDate/UpToDate  C
root at srv-ldeb-xen001:~#
***

can this mean, even when i got "Primary/Secondary  UpToDate/UpToDate  C"
that on one host, in my case xen002, i had a "Diskless" state?

i check those servers weekly once or twice, never ever had diffrent than
"Primary/Secondary  UpToDate/UpToDate  C".

by the way: on my 2TB disk what is better, internal meta-data or external?
and in my config i didnt drbd the meta data, each host had its own meta data
onto a lvm.

thanks a lot,

walter

-----Original Message-----
From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com
[mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Lars Ellenberg
Sent: Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2012 14:35
To: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] sync doesnt work

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 01:58:57PM +0200, Felix Frank wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 06/28/2012 01:48 PM, Walter Robert Ditzler wrote:
> > yes all volumes didn't sync even when the /etc/init.d/drbd status 
> > said
> > - Primary/Secondary  UpToDate/UpToDate C I just finished to manually 
> > copy all devices onto the xen002.
> 
> yes, but are they live replicating now that you have completed this task?
> 
> You can check by snapshotting the backing device on the secondary, if 
> you can survive the performance hit for a few minutes. Just mount the 
> snapshot and examine the data.
> 
> > When an /index/is specified, each index number refers to a fixed 
> > slot of meta-data of 128 MB, which allows a maximum data size of 4 GB.

4 TiB minus a few sectors, actually.


The only explanation would be that you had been "Diskless" on one of the
systems for an extended period of time, or that you had been disconnected
for what ever reason, or something fiddled with DRBD meta data.




Or that you are bypassing DRBD.

I've seen this serveral times:

people configuring their VMs to run on the LVs, then telling DRBD to
replicate these LVs.


 [VM]            [DRBD]--- replicates nothing to --- [DRBD peer]
   |               | sits on
   `-- writes to [LV]

Because no-one is writing to DRBD, DRBD cannot replicate anything.
So don't do that.



DRBD logs and complete configuration (including the VM configuration) may
help to understand what was going on in your setup.


	Lars
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