Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
By default drbdmanage during its normal operation will lock any lvm-related operations on a server somewhere between running the first 'drbdmanage init' and a year into production deployment. This is known and documented behavior. For any new drbd9 user there are two ways of avoiding it: 1. Divine inspiration compels one to read documentation section 5.4 titled "Configuring storage plugins" thoroughly and while going through 5.4.1 comprehend immediately that if you don't do what it says, it will kill your system at some point. (This is not stated.) 2. Be lucky enough to stumble upon the problem initially with a 'init' or 'node-add' and persist for long enough to figure out what the issue is. >From brief contact with a linbit developer it seems to me that company policy is 'new users just need to know to read 5.4.1'. Preferably before 5.1 and 5.2 which actually show how to use init/add-node. If I wanted to come up with a good way to leave new users thinking "should've just used gluster, like everybody else", I don't think I'd do a better job. (Btw: are there any other 5.4.1s a new user should be aware of?)