[DRBD-user] Device is held open by someone

Felix Frank ff at mpexnet.de
Thu Feb 28 10:19:32 CET 2013

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Uhm, no.

Please do not kill the drbd worker threads.

They are not holding the device open. There is nothing in the lsof
output that suggests that. In fact, the grep only matched the process
name here, not the file being held open.

Has "fuser -m /dev/drbd7" yielded anything?

On 02/27/2013 06:39 PM, Dan Barker wrote:
> Well, that’s who’s got it open. Task 7354, 27005 and 27174. See which
> you may be able to stop or kill.
> 
>  
> 
> Dan
> 
>  
> 
> *From:*Felipe Gutierrez [mailto:felipe.o.gutierrez at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:46 AM
> *To:* Dan Barker
> *Subject:* Re: [DRBD-user] Device is held open by someone
> 
>  
> 
> root at cloud15:/home/cloud15# lsof | grep drbd
> 
> lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system
> /home/cloud15/.gvfs
> 
>       Output information may be incomplete.
> 
> drbd7_wor  7354            root  cwd       DIR                8,2      
> 4096          2 /
> 
> drbd7_wor  7354            root  rtd       DIR                8,2      
> 4096          2 /
> 
> drbd7_wor  7354            root  txt   unknown                          
>                /proc/7354/exe
> 
> drbd7_rec 27005            root  cwd       DIR                8,2      
> 4096          2 /
> 
> drbd7_rec 27005            root  rtd       DIR                8,2      
> 4096          2 /
> 
> drbd7_rec 27005            root  txt   unknown                          
>                /proc/27005/exe
> 
> drbd7_ase 27174            root  cwd       DIR                8,2      
> 4096          2 /
> 
> drbd7_ase 27174            root  rtd       DIR                8,2      
> 4096          2 /
> 
> drbd7_ase 27174            root  txt   unknown                          
>                /proc/27174/exe
> 

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