Hi, sorry this one does indeed seem to have got lost in the shuffle.
On 2010-11-05 19:22, Digimer wrote: > Hi all, > > I've created a home-brew, open source fence device based on Red Hat's > FenceAgentAPI. The fence device and agent are now well supported by Red > Hat and now I would like to extend the support to DRBD. > > I've come up with a semi-canned two-node cluster using DRBD and Red > Hat's cluster suite 3. The one thread left dangling is that, when DRBD > detects a split brain, there is no fence action taken or recovery process. > > I understand that DRBD has the ability to tie into a fence device, and > I assume that doing so would help prevent split-brain conditions as one > node can fence the other, mark itself as "more" UpTpDate and then > invalidate the peer if and when it recovers from the fence action. Is > this a correct understanding? > > Any further information would be much appreciated. :) Take a look at the drbd.conf man page for the fence-peer handler and the "fencing resource-and-stonith" option in "disk". Essentially what happens is this: - DRBD detects peer is gone - DRBD freezes I/O - DRBD fires the fence-peer handler and observes its exit code as per the convention explained in http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-fence-peer.html - if all is well (peer is definitely no longer accessing the disk), DRBD un-freezes I/O and resumes normal operations. For Pacemaker, we can have the fence-peer handler tie in directly with the stonith-ng fencing daemon, and the cluster infrastructure does the rest for us. So once NA plays nicely with the Pacemaker STONITH API, you get DRBD fencing support almost for free. All of this is obviously specifically needed in dual-Primary configurations. For single-Primary DRBD it is not _strictly_ necessary as we tend to do quite well with the Outdated status for a Secondary that has lost its Primary peer. The DRBD Pacemaker OCF resource agent has this covered. Does this help? Cheers, Florian
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