[DRBD-user] Fault Tolerant NFS

2012-06-04 Thread Yount, William D
Does anyone have a good resource for setting up a fault tolerant NFS cluster using DRBD? I am currently using DRBD, Pacemaker, Corosync and OCFS2 on Ubuntu 12.04. High availability doesn't meet my needs. I have spent quite a while reading and trying out every combination of settings, but nothin

[DRBD-user] Do I need dual-primary mode?

2012-06-04 Thread Sebastian Kaps
Hi, I'm having a two-node Corosync/Pacemaker cluster (active/passive) with XFS on two DRBD-volumes (SLES11 SP1 + HAE). The active node has both volumes mounted and if this node fails, the passive node should take over and mount these volumes. I'm aware that I can't mount XFS simultaneously on bo

Re: [DRBD-user] Syncer's "after" dependency for online verifying

2012-06-04 Thread Dan Barker
> Is it possible to have DRBD verify B only when A is done verifying? I use crontab. On Monday at 2:11 AM, verify r0 On Tuesday at 2:11 AM, verify r1 On Wednesday at 2:11 AM, verify r2 On Thursday at 2:11 AM, verify r3 --or-- 11 2 * * 1 /sbin/drbdadm verify r0 11 2 * * 2

[DRBD-user] Read Balancing Broken in 8.4.1?

2012-06-04 Thread Shaun Thomas
Hey guys, During our testing with DRBD 8.4.1, the final round included seeing if the read balancing would be any good. Unfortunately it appears to cause intermittent "Resource temporarily unavailable" errors, no matter what protocol I use. Least-pending? Round-robin? 32K-striping? Instant fil

Re: [DRBD-user] Performance hit DRBD vs raw block device, even when disconnected

2012-06-04 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
- Original Message - > From: "Florian Haas" > To: "Wiebe Cazemier" > Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com > Sent: Monday, 4 June, 2012 2:43:31 PM > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Performance hit DRBD vs raw block device, even when > disconnected > > I don't think you've told us your DRBD version; t

Re: [DRBD-user] Performance hit DRBD vs raw block device, even when disconnected

2012-06-04 Thread Florian Haas
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Lars Ellenberg" >> To: "Wiebe Cazemier" >> Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com >> Sent: Monday, 4 June, 2012 11:29:20 AM >> Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Performance hit DRBD vs raw block device, even when >> d

Re: [DRBD-user] Performance hit DRBD vs raw block device, even when disconnected

2012-06-04 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
- Original Message - > From: "Lars Ellenberg" > To: "Wiebe Cazemier" > Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com > Sent: Monday, 4 June, 2012 11:29:20 AM > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Performance hit DRBD vs raw block device, even when > disconnected > > Put DRBD meta data on RAID 1. > Use decent bat

Re: [DRBD-user] wipe-md causes lvm to think logical volume is open after command completes

2012-06-04 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 01:11:10PM -0400, Chris Dickson wrote: > Hey guys, > > I ran into an odd issue with LVM and the wiping the drbd meta data from a > logical volume. Here is what my wipe md command looks like, this is all > done via a script: > > drbdmeta --force num v08 /dev/vg0/vol100 inte

Re: [DRBD-user] Performance hit DRBD vs raw block device, even when disconnected

2012-06-04 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:02:03PM +0200, Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Florian Haas" > > To: "Wiebe Cazemier" > > Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com > > Sent: Friday, 1 June, 2012 9:03:42 PM > > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Performance hit DRBD vs raw block device, even

Re: [DRBD-user] Split Brain due to 'diskless' state with pacemaker/heartbeat

2012-06-04 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:20:14AM +0200, Florian Haas wrote: > On 06/01/12 18:22, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > > There is one improvement we could make in DRBD: > > call the fence-peer handler not only for connection loss, > > but also for peer disk failure. > > That sounds like a good and simple idea

Re: [DRBD-user] sync with wrong data

2012-06-04 Thread 陈楠
Thank you for your explanation. I have found this in change log, Can you explain it to me? In case our backing devices support write barriers and cache flushes, we use these means to ensure data integrity in the presence of volatile disk write caches and power outages. 在 2012-06-04 15:48:36

Re: [DRBD-user] sync with wrong data

2012-06-04 Thread Felix Frank
Hi, please don't forget to CC the list. On 06/04/2012 02:58 AM, 陈楠 wrote: > Thank you! There are volatile write cashes in our I/O system. Does the As long as you're making use of these caches, you *will* loose data on power outage or critical hardware failure. Performance can become unacceptabl

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd sync very slow

2012-06-04 Thread Marcel Kraan
Hello, Thanks for your resonse. i have already set the rate to 50M " finish: 0:49:23 speed: 596 (2,236) want: 51,200 K/sec " this current speed is 596 or wanted rate 51200 .. So the sync speed is fast enough i think On 4 jun. 2012, at 09:45, zf5984599 wrote: > Did you set one "syncer rate"

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd sync very slow

2012-06-04 Thread zf5984599
Did you set one "syncer rate" in your drbd.conf? such as: syncer { rate 200M; } B.R. Zheng Feng From: Marcel Kraan Date: 2012-06-04 15:38 To: drbd-user Subject: [DRBD-user] drbd sync very slow Hello, I use DRBD for a while now. But today after "image

[DRBD-user] drbd sync very slow

2012-06-04 Thread Marcel Kraan
Hello, I use DRBD for a while now. But today after "image creation crash of 850GB" a the disks where out of sync So i synced the secondary again with the primary secondary drbdadm secondary main drbdadm disconnect main drbdadm -- --discard-my-data connect main primary drbdadm connect main a