Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, Avoiding data divergence is the motto of this drbd-9 release. One the one hand the fencing mechanism as known from the drbd-8.x world finally works in drbd-9 as expected. Including the crm-fence-peer mechanism! But those who care about fencing know that it is not trivial to implement. It is about making sure the cluster does the right thing, if the main replication network is interrupted. That involves having a second network for pacemaker communication or to control fencing devices. -- Quite frequently we see that such a "second network" is just an other VLAN on the same physical infrastructure -> Which makes the whole fencing effort point less. An other approach to avoid data divergence in partitioned clusters is to require quorum to modify the data. This approach does not need a second network or fencing devices. But it only works if you have at least 3 replicas. The most outstanding convenience feature implemented in this cycle: intentional diskless nodes are no longer red in the output of the status command. This is a recommended update for every drbd-9 user. drbd 9.0.7-1 (api:genl2/proto:86-112/transport:14) -------- * various fixes to the 2-phase-commit online resize * fix fencing and disk state transition and from Consistent; Now it is as complete as it was under drbd-8.4; Necessary for crm-fence-peer * fix moving previous current-uuid into bitmap slot for peer with inconsistent disk state. Old code produced false "split-brain detected" * fix calculation of authoritative nodes. Old code could lead to to false "split-bain detected" * udev workaround: Do not fail down if there is a read-only opener, instead wait up to a second if the read-only-opener goes away. * a primary notes if a "far away" nodes outdates itself, and records the fact in its meta-data. * report back to userspace if a node (or peer) is diskless by intention * restore "Outdated" peer disk state from the meta-data upon attach * Quorum to avoid data divergence, an alternative to fencing when the resource has 3 or more replicas * improve error reporting in case a promote/down/disconnect/detach operation failes. E.g. tells which peer declined a state transition * compiles with Linux 4.10 http://www.drbd.org/download/drbd/9.0/drbd-9.0.7-1.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/drbd-9.0.git/tag/refs/tags/drbd-9.0.7 drbd-utils 8.9.11 -------- * better integration of drbd-proxy in drbd9 scenarios * OCF resource agent and crm-fence-peer for drbd9 * introduce quorum support * expose information if node is intentionally diskless * do not set peer-device-options twice * various JSON output fixes * udev fixes for newer ubuntu releases * set bitmap to 0 on metadata creation http://www.drbd.org/download/drbd/utils/drbd-utils-8.9.11.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/drbd-utils.git/tag/refs/tags/v8.9.11 best, phil