[DRBD-user] Adding a Physical Disk to a Storage Pool

[Roland Kammerer]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 03:00:35AM +0000, Eric Robinson wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com <drbd-user-
> > bounces at lists.linbit.com> On Behalf Of Roland Kammerer
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 2:07 AM
> > To: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
> > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Adding a Physical Disk to a Storage Pool
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 04:52:24AM +0000, Eric Robinson wrote:
> > > I've read through the Linstor User Guide and looked at Linstor's many
> > > help screens, but I don't see an answer to this question. We just
> > > added a new physical disk to our cluster nodes. What linstor command
> > > adds them to existing storage pools? Or am I supposed to add them
> > > manually to the underlying LVM volume group outside of Linstor?
> >
> > yes.
> 
> I did that, and now vgdisplay  shows that the volume group's size has
> increased by the expected amount, but the storage does not show in
> linstor. The total and free capacities on the pools have not changed.

not a LINSTOR dev, but AFAIK it only updates the information if it has
to (and maybe periodically?), like when it needs to create a new
resource. The easiest is to just 'systemctl restart linstor-satellite'
on that host. There should also be some reconnect command in the client
IIRC.

Regards, rck