Thanks. In my situation, DRBD is a resource in my cluster. Hence, it is managed by heartbeat.
jerome -----Original Message----- From: linux-ha-boun...@lists.linux-ha.org [mailto:linux-ha-boun...@lists.linux-ha.org] On Behalf Of Dominik Klein Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:50 AM To: General Linux-HA mailing list Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] Re: Stopping the Heartbeat daemon does not stop the DRBD Daemon Joe Bill wrote: > >> Stopping the Heartbeat daemon (service heartbeat stop) >> does not stop the DRBD daemon even if it is one of >> the resources. > > - Heartbeat and DRBD are 2 different products/packages > > - Like most services, DRBD doesn't need Heartbeat to run. You can set up and > run DRBD volumes without Heartbeat installed, or any cluster supervisor. > > - The DRBD daemons provide the communication interface for each network > volume and are therefor an integral part of the volume management. Without > the DRBD daemons, you (manually) and Heartbeat (automagically) could not > handle the DRBD volumes. Just to avoid confusion: There is no such thing as a DRBD daemon. DRBD is a kernel module. > - If you look carefully at your startup, DRBD daemons start whether or not > Heartbeat is started. That depends on your setup. Maybe in yours it does and it should. In others it does not and it should not. Regards Dominik _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
