[DRBD-user] Dual-primary setup: disconnecting

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Mar 18 10:07:33 CET 2013

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:19:26AM +0100, Stephan Budach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running DRBD 8.4.3 in a dual-pri setup. DRBD interlink is
> through a 10 GbE Intel Cx520 link, which is piggy-backed between the
> two Supermicro boxes. I have configured two SCST iscsi targets from
> two DRBD volumes, which configured as multipathed targets on three

Don't.

Simply: Don't.


Multipath expects to talk via more than one path to *the same target*.

What your setup does it have multipath talk (via one path each) to
*two different targets*, that don't know of each other,
and happen to be able to present the same data most of the time.

As iSCSI is not just about READs and WRITEs, but, especially in a
clustered setup, about reservations and other management commands,
this CAN NOT WORK, and that is NOT drbd's fault.

So just don't.

Thank you.


	Lars

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