Re: [DRBD-user] Adjusting al-extents on-the-fly

2014-05-29 Thread Stuart Longland
On 30/05/14 11:13, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:23:55PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: iotop didn't show any huge spikes that I'd imagine the disks would have trouble with. Then again, since it's effectively polling, I could have "blinked" and missed it. >>> >>>

Re: [DRBD-user] Adjusting al-extents on-the-fly

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:23:55PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > Hi Lars, > On 27/05/14 20:31, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > >> The system logs PLC-generated process data every 5 seconds, and at two > >> times of the day, at midnight and midday, it misses a sample with the > >> logging taking 6 seconds

Re: [DRBD-user] Question about DRBD and MySQL

2014-05-29 Thread Digimer
This will get sent long after you asked, so pardon if this is answered by someone else already. STONITH is not dependent on a 3rd node; Each node is capable of fencing the other. The trick is having a device to do the fencing that is external to the nodes. That is to say, the fencing has to wo

Re: [DRBD-user] Question about DRBD and MySQL

2014-05-29 Thread Cesar Peschiera
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Re: [DRBD-user] Is anyone else getting blasted with DRBD emails from 2006?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:58:13AM -0400, Michael Monette wrote: > Sorry it's not a technical question. > > My phone has been going off for the past 15 minutes solid from DRBD > emails dating back to 2006. I only joined DRBDLand a few months ago. > Is something going on with your mail server or? >

[DRBD-user] Is anyone else getting blasted with DRBD emails from 2006?

2014-05-29 Thread Michael Monette
Sorry it's not a technical question. My phone has been going off for the past 15 minutes solid from DRBD emails dating back to 2006. I only joined DRBDLand a few months ago. Is something going on with your mail server or? I just deleted 273 messages that came in and they are still flowing to my

[DRBD-user] Question about DRBD and MySQL

2014-05-29 Thread Chuck Payne
I have a question on STONITH and DRBD and MySQL. We currently have two machines setup in our cluster. I was reading that it would be good to have a third machine that can do STONITH management. I been told that we can use switch or router. I wanted to ask what is the best thing to use, a virtual

Re: [DRBD-user] usage.drbd.org / drbdadm_usage_cnt.c

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006 19:17 schrieb Ard van Breemen: > Hi, > I was wondering why the usage page showed bogus entries, and it > seems it is a small uninitialized buffer problem. > > Please remove all (my) bogus entries (running revision 2197) from > the usage counter. > > The following patch fixe

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD stuck after a strong network failure

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-05-08 15:18:31 +0300 \ Cyril Bouthors: > Another interesting thing on the primary: > > # ps -axo pid,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN,cmd -o comm | grep drbd > 2493 down [drbd0_receiver]drbd0_receiver > 5514 ? drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 net 10 drbdsetup > 5661 d

Re: [DRBD-user] strange performance problems with drbd

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-05-08 15:01:08 + \ Torsten Neumann: > Lars Ellenberg writes: > > > > So how can I check why drbd slows things so terrible down? Yes there is a > > > bottleneck. But without drbd all seems fine, with drbd not. > > > > see what io scheduler is in use > > (/sys/block/lower-level-device/q

Re: [DRBD-user] strange performance problems with drbd

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-05-08 08:27:56 + \ Torsten Neumann: > Francis I. Malolot writes: > > > > > >>>When putting linux software raid5 on top it goes unusable slow > > > > Raid 5 slow performance is normal especially write because > > it must read overhead blocks in the stripe to recreate the parity block.

[DRBD-user] DRBD and FC4

2014-05-29 Thread Blane Bramble
Has anyone managed to get 0.7.16 (SVN 2066) working with Fedora Core 4 Kernel 2.6.15_1.1831 yet? ___ drbd-user mailing list drbd-user@lists.linbit.com http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user ___ d

Re: [DRBD-user] strange performance problems with drbd

2014-05-29 Thread Francis I . Malolot
please increase your MTU and feel the power of DRBD. here we can pump at 125MB thanks, francism FingerPrint:3082 0CB4 0609 2A86 4886 F70D 0107 02A0 - Original Message - From: "Torsten Neumann" To: Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 2:43 PM Subject: [DRBD-user] strange performance problems

Re: [DRBD-user] meta-disk required?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-05-05 11:36:28 -0700 \ Martin Fick: > Hi, > > While reading the documentation for DRBD which I would > like to use, I found an inconsistency and since I > haven't used it yet, I do not know what is proper. > > On the web page: > > > http://www.drbd.org/fileadmin/drbd/doc/0.7.0/en/drbd.c

Re: [DRBD-user] strange performance problems with drbd

2014-05-29 Thread Francis I . Malolot
>the cisco switches between the two hosts don't allow that. Is it worth the >trouble with the network admins or does it explain the very slow drbd >performance with recent kernel versions? Try to crossover the link between the two host and do $ ifconfig eth0 MTU 6000 >The trouble is that I don

Re: [DRBD-user] strange performance problems with drbd

2014-05-29 Thread Francis I . Malolot
>>>When putting linux software raid5 on top it goes unusable slow Raid 5 slow performance is normal especially write because it must read overhead blocks in the stripe to recreate the parity block. Please look where is the bottleneck. thanks, francism FingerPrint:3082 0CB4 0609 2A86 4886 F70

Re: [DRBD-user] Kernel panic while syncing

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-05-05 11:14:32 +0200 \ JMWorld - Dpto. Técnico: > Thank you for the response. > Do you mean that the only way to avoid drbd to raise a kernel panic and > loosing control over the machin is to start the node with updated data as > primary? no. > Since it should be the first syncing... is t

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Synchronization mechanism

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-05-05 11:53:52 +0300 \ Louai Al-Awami: > Does DRBD synchronize on real-time yes. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbHFax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schoenbrunner Str. 244, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www

Re: [DRBD-user] Trying to get resync to occur - StandAlone->WFConnection

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-05-04 13:28:23 -0500 \ travis kriza: > We had to take one of our servers in a DRBD (0.6.12) cluster offline (hard) > and need to force a full resync. > > Strangely, the resync had started to work fine for a period of time and then > quit. (It quit around the same time I got a secondary DRB

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD configuration&In-Reply-To=a6eb3388f06fd0409b7e0fdd8589052801ed1...@blr-ec-mbx02.wip

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-05-03 16:41:41 -0600 \ Roger Beus: > I am very new to DRBD and I am having the same problems as described in > this post. I have run the commands that were suggested and the > command: > > rpm -qa | grep drbd returns: > > drbd-0.7.17-11 this contains the user space tools only. you obvio

Re: [DRBD-user] debian source patch

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 18:22 schrieb Ard van Breemen: > Hi, > Could you please apply the following patch: > > Index: debian/changelog > === > --- debian/changelog (revision 2181) > +++ debian/changelog (working copy) > @@ -1,4 +

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd and unix sockets

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-28 15:07:48 -0500 \ Christopher Harrison: > I love drbd and the ease of use. Kudos. > Lately I have been having problems with the drbd block device. The > problem manifests in closing a unix socket on the drbd device device. > The result freezes all io to the drbd devices (both primar

Re: [DRBD-user] Kernel panic while syncing

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-05-04 11:16:30 +0200 \ JMWorld - Dpto. Técnico: > Kernel panic > > While syncing Primary shows next dump but about a minute before sync starts > we lost the connection with primary. > System is running sarge-backports debian kernel 2.6.15 for i686 with SMP > support but with only one proce

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-0.7.18 doesn't compile under 2.617-rc2 either!

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-26 17:28:03 -0400 \ Maurice Volaski: > So this is a drbd problem, not with the kernel. you have to excuse us if we tend to wait for a kernel _release_ before we act on changes. and, you may want to train your mail user agent to not break threading. anyways, s/SLAB_NO_REAP/0/g has been

Re: [DRBD-user] Upgrade .7.10 -> 0.7.17 config error

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-09 10:54:17 -0800 \ Gary W. Smith: > We started the process of upgrading some of our dev clusters from 0.7.10 to > 0.7.17 today and found that the config file that worked under .0.7.10 throws > errors under 0.7.17. There is also an oddity in /proc/drbd. > > It seems to be a trivial work

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD stuck after a strong network failure

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-25 21:48:12 +0200 \ Cyril Bouthors: > Same thing happened tonight, here are more information, hop it helps: > > root@ns1:~# ps auxwf | grep drbd > root 879 0.1 0.0 0 0 ?DApr18 17:40 > [drbd0_receiver] > root 22526 0.0 0.0 1432 444 pts/5S+ 21

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 8.0pre3 - mke2fs -j /dev/drbd0 failed with kernel Oops: 0000 [#1]

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-26 10:24:08 +0200 \ Werner Langemeyer: > tried to get drbd 8 running on FC5 under Vmware 5.5 failed creating the file > system. drbd version 0.7.17 runs OK in the same environment. retry with a fresh drbd svn checkout. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178

Re: [DRBD-user] Maximum size of drbd partition?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-25 14:08:41 -0400 \ Charles Riley: > Hi, > > I am evaluating DRBD for a project, and have a question: > > Does al-extents limit the size that your drbd device can be? No. But it is otherwise limited to ~ 3.998 TB per drbd device for drbd 0.7. [ as a side note: drbd-0.7-plus allow

Re: [DRBD-user] Filesystem Inconsisteny

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-09 09:31:39 +0100 \ Stay, Stefan (EXT): > Hello list, > > we use an auto-install-mechanism, to install our software load on our systems. [...] > (4.3GB of diskless blades OS - Repositorys) [...] interessting. you happen to be some sort of provider? > Kernel: 2.6.10_mvlcge40 I don't kn

Re: [DRBD-user] [PATCH] fix building for x86_64 on i386

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-26 11:47:08 +0200 \ Cyril Bouthors: > Hi, > > I'm having another complaint from Debian users about x86_64 kernels, > this one contains a patch: solution is to ugrade to some kernel that has the compat_ioctl member... there was on (un)register_ioctl32_conversion missing in drbd_fs.c, jus

Re: [DRBD-user] kernel oops drbd 8.0_pre2 on Fedora Core 5 and RHEL4

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-20 03:02:37 +0200 \ Ard van Breemen: > > (looking further up into the code, unless philip finds it first ;-) ) well, typically we are asleep at three'o'clock at night... > b->bm=vmalloced() > > According to some googling vmalloced memory cannot be virt_to_page. Instead > page =

Re: [DRBD-user] [patch] fix ioctl32 wrapper for 0.8pre2

2014-05-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:16:00PM +0200, Philipp Reisner wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 15:39 schrieb Guido Guenther: > > Hi, > > the patch below is needed to get the module loaded on recent kernels. > > CONFIG_COMPAT is always defined so we'd end up calling > > (un)register_ioctl32_conversi

[DRBD-user] Re: [DRBD-announce] drbd-8.0pre3.tar.gz

2014-05-29 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi Philipp, On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:03:13PM +0200, Philipp Reisner wrote: > * Fixes for 64bit kernel / 32 bit userland environments Thanks for applying that one, but it fixes the problem not entirely since ioctl_get_config changed underneath us: Apr 25 12:56:11 testav0109 kernel: sizeof(struct

Re: [DRBD-user] kernel oops drbd 8.0_pre2 on Fedora Core 5 and RHEL4

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 14:33 schrieb Michael Paesold: > Ard van Breemen wrote: > > drbd bef b->bm=c25ba000,page_nr=2947 > > drbd aft b->bm=c25ba000,page_nr=2947 > > drbd bef b->bm=c25ba000,page_nr=2948 > > drbd aft b->bm=c25ba000,page_nr=2948 > > drbd0: readin

Re: [DRBD-user] syncing all conditions

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-24 12:01:49 +0100 \ m...@oncampusuk.co.uk: > I had an unexpected syncing all last time one of my servers went down. > Can you tell me what I did wrong? > > I am using drbd 0.6.12 > at this point I got a syncing all message. I thought that by putting > drbd into secondary on the secondar

Re: [DRBD-user] kernel oops drbd 8.0_pre2 on Fedora Core 5 and RHEL4

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
> (looking further up into the code, unless philip finds it first ;-) ) At that time I usually sleep ;) -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, A

Re: [DRBD-user] root filesystem on drbd?

2014-05-29 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Alexander Skwar wrote: > My question: Is it possible to boot from a drbd? If the drbd-device *is* in primary state and a filesystem *is* mounted on top of DRBD you can boot a virtual machine guest from it - VMware, XEN, linux-vserver, qemu, bochs, hercules etc. Helmut Wollmersdorfer _

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD stuck after a strong network failure

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
just some preliminary comments... / 2006-04-18 18:19:04 +0200 \ Cyril Bouthors: > Hi, > > I've experienced a major hardware failure on an ethernet switch last > night and DRBD very badly reacted on 6 nodes out of the 26 that were > connected to that switch. > > Those 6 nodes switched to state P

[DRBD-user] Problem with a resource

2014-05-29 Thread the...@tin.it
Hi. Using drbd 0.7.13 succesfully since September. I have 4 resources configured. Now i have a strange problem with only one of the resource. If i reboot master node, when it comes back it stays "WFConnection: Secondary/Unknown" when other node stays: "StandAlone: Primary/Unknown". To make t

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD stuck after a strong network failure

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-18 22:55:41 +0200 \ Cyril Bouthors: > It has been stuck for ~10 minutes, then I got SSH access, tried few > things rapidly took the decision to reboot the servers. > > It should not be stuck in WFReportParams. thats what I say. one thing that is interessting from your first post: the o

Re: [DRBD-user] kernel oops drbd 8.0_pre2 on Fedora Core 5 and RHEL4

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Ok, the whole issues has is related to using device-mapper / lvm. SVN trunk already has a patch that *should* fix the issues, but I have not yet tested it. Will test it tomorrow. -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technolo

Re: [DRBD-user] [patch] Wait for all DRBD devices to be registered with udev

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2006 16:53 schrieb Christopher Boumenot: > I am using DRBD in combination with Heartbeat, and I've noticed that on > occasion not all of the DRBD devices are properly configured. I've > tracked the issue down to DRBD and udev. When DRBD waits for udev to > register its de

Re: [DRBD-user] Problem with drbd v8 - cannot create new device

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2006 19:00 schrieb Michael Paesold: > Philipp Reisner wrote: > > Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 17:50 schrieb Michael Paesold: > > > Using internal meta-data results in a kernel oops. Using both the > > > regular > > > 2.6.9 as well as the Xen 2.6.16 kernel. I have captured the

Re: [DRBD-user] root filesystem on drbd?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-18 19:33:12 +0200 \ Alexander Skwar: > Hello! > > I've got a 2-node "cluster" on which I'd like to use drbd. My > plan is to have *everything* on drbd - this includes the root > filesystem (/). Actually, I'd like to make it even a bit more > complicated: I'd like to make drbd use /dev/sd

[DRBD-user] What causes split-brain? How to avoid it?

2014-05-29 Thread Tip Ring
We are using DRBD v0.7.11 and kernel v2.6.10. In the syslog sometimes I observed message saying "Split-brain detected" and then both the DRBDs go to "StandAlone" state. This is occuring mainly during the initial full sync. When/why/how does this split-brain occur? Are there any ways to avoid i

Re: [DRBD-user] [patch] fix ioctl32 wrapper for 0.8pre2

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 15:39 schrieb Guido Guenther: > Hi, > the patch below is needed to get the module loaded on recent kernels. > CONFIG_COMPAT is always defined so we'd end up calling > (un)register_ioctl32_conversion even when with kernels newer than > 2.6.10. This doesn't work since thes

Re: [DRBD-user] kernel oops drbd 8.0_pre2 on Fedora Core 5 and RHEL4

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-11 13:42:55 +0100 \ Langemeyer, Werner (IBW): > Lars, > > still the same..., the complete /var/log/message could be find below: you are very sure that the module in use is the one with the patch? because it is very simple: in the kernel source: block/ll_rw_blk.c: |void blk_run_queue

Re: [DRBD-user] Problem with drbd v8 - cannot create new device

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 17:50 schrieb Michael Paesold: > Michael Paesold wrote: > > Philipp Reisner wrote: > >> Am Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 17:18 schrieb Michael Paesold: > >> > I want to run drbd trunk r2131 on 2.6.16.1 (with Xen 3). The problem > >> > is that I cannot create/attach a new drbd

Re: [DRBD-user] kernel oops drbd 8.0_pre2 on Fedora Core 5 and RHEL4

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-10 14:35:01 +0100 \ Langemeyer, Werner (IBW): > Dear drbd-user, > > I could not get the drbd version 8 up and running on RHEL4, FC5 as well as on > Vmware Workstation 5.5.1 with RHEL4 and FC5 installed. > Call Trace: > [] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xd [] > blk_run_queue+0xf/0x37 >

Re: [DRBD-user] uuid, label or equivalent in drbd.conf

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-07 16:44:30 +0930 \ Admin: > Is there a way to tell drbd to identify a block device some way other than > by /dev/? I'm assuming that evms volume labels should be the way to go > but I can't get that to work (see below). not drbd's but "somebody elses problem", namely udev... man scsi_i

Re: [DRBD-user] How can web100 block drbd?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-06 02:07:03 -0400 \ Maurice Volaski: > >so this is not a bug in drbd, but web100 alters the timing "somehow" > >that it takes several seconds to get one single data block through. > > Is that really the case (see below)? Do you have any guess about the > "somehow"? The timing of what exa

Re: [DRBD-user] Problem with drbd v8 - cannot create new device

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 17:18 schrieb Michael Paesold: > I want to run drbd trunk r2131 on 2.6.16.1 (with Xen 3). The problem is > that I cannot create/attach a new drbd device. The same error has been > reported before: > http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2005-May/002951.html > http

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 8.0_pre1 could not be build on Fedora Core 5

2014-05-29 Thread Langemeyer, Werner (IBW)
thanks, the build works fine now! also the rpm build with a few changes in the drbd.spec files works fine... [root@emdc-ha1 langemw]# diff -uraN drbd08/drbd.spec.in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/drbd.spec --- drbd08/drbd.spec.in 2006-04-06 03:37:25.0 +0200 +++ /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/drbd.spec

Re: [DRBD-user] Problems compiling drbd-8.0_pre1

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-05 17:05:30 +0100 \ James Davis: > I'm compiling drbd-8.0_pre1 on a Debian/Etch system, but I get the > following error running 'make all'. Any ideas? it is strongly recommended that if you have any problems with any -pre.tgz version, you try the latest svn revision, and see if it alread

[DRBD-user] Sensible maximum number of drbd devices

2014-05-29 Thread Michael Paesold
Hi all, I am again testing drbd for use with xen virtual machines. On a typical physical pair of machines, there will be about 8 to 15 (maybe even 20) virtual machines. Each VM needs its own block device for storage. To be able to fail over or migrate single VMs between the nodes, I must be ab

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 8.0_pre1 could not be build on Fedora Core 5

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-05 14:41:26 +0200 \ Langemeyer, Werner (IBW): > sorry Lars, > > it changed, but still not building, used now latest "Checked out revision > 2131." > > see below: > > CC [M] /home/langemw/drbd08/drbd/drbd_receiver.o > /home/langemw/drbd08/drbd/drbd_receiver.c: In function `drbd_pp_all

Re: [DRBD-user] mkfs hangs with lastest drbd branch build and FC4 kernel

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2006 11:48 schrieb Stefan Pietsch: > Todd Denniston wrote: > > Stefan, > > Philipp sent a patch[1] that seems to work for me[2]. With Philipp's > > patch you > > should be able to just > > patch drbd - make clean rpm - rpm install the new drbd. > > > > I am not sure when Phil

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 8.0_pre1 could not be build on Fedora Core 5

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-05 07:57:20 +0100 \ Langemeyer, Werner (IBW): > I'm not able to build the drbd 8.0_pre1 on a Fedora Core 5 system. The > build stopps at the point shown below, when trying to build the > drbd_receiver.c. > > FC5 kernel used: 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-i686. > > Note: the latest drbd 0.7.17 build

Re: [DRBD-user] How can web100 block drbd?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-03 02:28:48 -0500 \ Maurice Volaski: > Web100 is a patch to the Linux kernel (see http://www.web100.org) that > enables one to get statistics on all TCP traffic. There was a bug > in the previous posted version, 2.5.8, but the author seems to have fixed it. > > So as far I can tell, al

Re: [DRBD-user] degr-wfc-timeout - when is this value used?

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 16:11 schrieb Werner Fischer: > Hi all, > > I have degr-wfc-timeout set to 120, and tested it like Philipp described > it in this post: > http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2004-August/001674.html > > Initially, the cluster was running fine with services on node1

[DRBD-user] drbd 8.0_pre1 could not be build on Fedora Core 5

2014-05-29 Thread Langemeyer, Werner (IBW)
Dear drbd-user, I'm not able to build the drbd 8.0_pre1 on a Fedora Core 5 system. The build stopps at the point shown below, when trying to build the drbd_receiver.c. FC5 kernel used: 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-i686. Note: the latest drbd 0.7.17 builds OK on FC5, drbd 8.0_pre1 builds also OK on RHEL W

Re: [DRBD-user] Bug in http://linux-ha.org/DRBD/GettingStarted (Was: How can web100 block drbd?)

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-04-03 18:22:55 +0200 \ Andreas J. Koenig: > What made my experience so painful turns out as a bug in > http://linux-ha.org/DRBD/GettingStarted. Specifically the page states > > node1 drbddisk::web Filesystem::/dev/drbd0::/mnt/ha 192.168.0.1 httpd > [...] > node1 drbddisk::web Fi

Re: [DRBD-user] degr-wfc-timeout - when is this value used?

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 16:11 schrieb Werner Fischer: > Hi all, > > I have degr-wfc-timeout set to 120, and tested it like Philipp described > it in this post: > http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2004-August/001674.html > > Initially, the cluster was running fine with services on node1

Re: [DRBD-user] Different synchronization speed and ETA on both nodes at the same time.

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
> On node1: > version: 0.7.17 (api:77/proto:74) > SVN Revision: 2093 build by root@node1, 2006-03-10 15:23:12 > 0: cs:SyncSource st:Primary/Secondary ld:Consistent > ns:158622036 nr:0 dw:7410516 dr:151219265 al:5186 bm:342968 lo:127 pe:324 > ua:1929 ap:1 > [=>..] sync'

Re: [DRBD-user] New Idea - quick zeroing: good or bad?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-31 21:22:01 +0400 \ Igor Yu. Zhbanov: > Hello! > > Performing initial sync on big volumes is a time-consuming operation. > Is it possible to use a special value of generation counters to mark that > certain block consists of only zero bytes? So when accessing to that block > DRBD just re

[DRBD-user] Application hangs on read/write

2014-05-29 Thread Tip Ring
I am using DRBD version "0.7.11". After both the DRBDs are connected and running, the console just hangs for a long time if I try to do a "ls -l" or "vi" or "cat" something on the Primary DRBD partition. The console or the SSH session simply hangs and doesn't even respond to any keystroke. From an

[DRBD-user] Re: drbd config with a RH cluster at primary site and DR server at DR site

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-27 19:08:30 +0530 \ gvsmsk: > As Iam not a member of this list and since Iam in a desparate hurry, I > request all of you to respond to my personal email sivakumar, you have to subscribe to be allowed to post. so if you are in a hurry, and you want your posts be read at all, you should

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd crashed under 2.6.13 and left a resource hanging in secondary state

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-28 20:14:26 -0500 \ Maurice Volaski: > The primary is running drbd 0.7.17 under kernel 2.6.13 and it crashed. can you be more precise than "crashed"? > Having drbd crash is not that unusual, um. what? can you give some details here? > but what is unusual was the heartbeat/drbd failove

Re: [DRBD-user] Asymmetric performance

2014-05-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:39:38PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > performance numbers consistent with writes on the local filesystem. But > when I write on both devices at the same time (one on server0 and the > other on server1) I always get 3 times as much throughput on drbd0 than > on drb1 (dben

Re: [DRBD-user] Bug in drbdadm?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-26 20:35:46 +0200 \ Laurent CARON: > Luc de Louw wrote: > >Hi all, > >I tried to setup yet another cluster with DRBD 0.7.17 and heartbeat. > >I finaly found out that there is maybe a problem in the drbdadm program. > >If I fire up drbdadm, see what happens: > >inst1:~# drbdadm primary r0

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd hanging on file write

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-24 13:30:30 +0200 \ DaLiV: > Philipp Reisner wrote: > >And when the other node is online, and DRBD is connected, then > >everything is fine ? > yes. works fine, but if second node go offline - first will stop > normal working after any writes to that and possible result broken > filesyst

Re: [DRBD-user] Bug in drbdadm?

2014-05-29 Thread Laurent CARON
Luc de Louw wrote: > Hi all, > > I tried to setup yet another cluster with DRBD 0.7.17 and heartbeat. > > I finaly found out that there is maybe a problem in the drbdadm program. > > If I fire up drbdadm, see what happens: > > inst1:~# drbdadm primary r0 > Child process does not terminate! > Ex

[DRBD-user] [patch] update comment

2014-05-29 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, this patch brings the comment in drbd_command.c in sync with what's pringed in /proc/drbd. Please apply, if appropriate. --- drbd-0.7.17/drbd/drbd_proc.c.orig 2005-09-01 09:40:30.0 +0200 +++ drbd-0.7.17/drbd/drbd_proc.c2006-03-23 16:17:56.0 +0100 @@ -239,9 +239,12 @@

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd hanging on file write

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Freitag, 24. März 2006 11:06 schrieb Vadim: > in continue of . > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/drbd/users/9891#9896 > > > also fedora core 4 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp > drbd hangs when second node offline. And when t

[DRBD-user] Asymmetric performance

2014-05-29 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, It seems drbd shows quiet asymmetric performance on "crossmounted" devices. I have two HP DL385 (server0 and server1) each with two drbd devices drbd0 and drbd1 synchronized over a dedicated gigabit ethernet crosslink between them. Server0 has drbd0 mounted and Server1 has drbd1 mounted. When I

Re: [DRBD-user] Initial sync without the do-what-I-say command?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-24 15:09:41 +0530 \ Varun Menghani: > Hi, > I have written a script to configure hearbeat and drbd for a 2 node > cluster. On the server from which data is to be pushed, the script > executes the "drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 primary --do-what-I-say" command. > However, it is possible that a user

[DRBD-user] DRBD full sync not happening

2014-05-29 Thread Srikanth Varma
We are using DRBD 0.7.11 for replicating a disk partition in our Linux storage blades. The user is given an option to set the size of the partition during the blade installation. For example if the user's input is 2000 MB as the partition size, we do a resizefs (2000-132)M immediately after mke2fs

Re: [DRBD-user] About drbd8 conf

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Please have a look at the documented sample configuration file shipped in the tarball. It is located in the script directory. A few things have changed... -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +

Re: [DRBD-user] 2.4.x - 2.6.x mixed kernel drbd cluster

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-23 13:54:57 +0100 \ Diego Liziero: > Anyone tested a drbd cluster with mixed version of 2.4.x and 2.6.x > kernel in their nodes? > > I'm about to upgrade a drbd 2-nodes cluster from 2.4.x to 2.6.x kernel, > and I thought to change first the secondary node, then to switch it > to primary,

[DRBD-user] About drbd8 conf

2014-05-29 Thread Francis I . Malolot
Greetings, Can anyone help us with our old drbd.0.7.14 configurations file will not work on version 8. We encounter error if starting drbd -bash-3.00# /etc/init.d/drbd start Starting DRBD resources: Parse error 'protocol | on | disk | net | syncer | s tartup | handler' expected, at line 7 -bash

Re: [DRBD-user] Activity log

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-16 18:30:39 -0500 \ Verbeeck Derek: > Is there a method to repair the activity log? > > On my secondary server, when it boots up, the drbd init script reports > "No usable activity log found". this is a completely normal message. sorry that it makes you feel something is wrong. we may h

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd hanging on file write

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-16 14:04:41 -0500 \ Monty Taylor: > Lars Ellenberg wrote: > >> I just set up a drbd replication pair and shipped it to the colo. > >> It was working great. > > so you did local tests first, and all was working as expected? > > Yes. > > >now. your report is somewhat unspecific. > >anyway

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd hanging on file write

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-16 14:55:48 -0500 \ Diego Julian Remolina: > A small comment on your upgrade process... > > >Then I rebooted the other machine into 2.6.15 so I could build its > >new modules. While I was waiting for that, I started transferring > >some data > > You do not need to reboot a machine to b

Re: [DRBD-user] partition issues

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
> >you cannot partition a drbd. we don't support partitioning. > >thats why those device nodes do not exist. > > Well, that explains that. Except I'm confused why the xen guest can > mount each partition as if the drbd device was a normal disk, but > fdisk on the xen0 domain cannot. my guess is,

[DRBD-user] Activity log

2014-05-29 Thread Verbeeck Derek
Is there a method to repair the activity log? On my secondary server, when it boots up, the drbd init script reports "No usable activity log found". I did a "drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 invalidate" which forced a complete sync, and it is still reporting this error after another reboot. Is there a drbd c

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd hanging on file write

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
> I just set up a drbd replication pair and shipped it to the colo. It was > working great. so you did local tests first, and all was working as expected? > Then we upgraded the kernel to 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp. I rebuilt the > kernel modules on one machine, rebooted, connected and became primary.

[DRBD-user] First success of OCFS2 on DRBD8

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Linux-2.6.16-rc6 already includes OCFS2. Although the whole thing still feels a bit fragile in various failure cases, it basically works, after applying the trivial patch to drbd-8.0_pre1 !! [root@hans:~]# mount [...] configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw) ocfs2_dlmfs on /dlm type

Re: [DRBD-user] partition issues

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-15 19:08:19 -0800 \ Ben: > I recently installed Xen on top of a DRBD block device. At first this seemed > to go great, but now my xen guest seems to be having a hard > time finding its partitions. I thought I'd try to mount the partitions > manually and see what's up, but low and behol

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd -> disk /dev/???

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-10 20:42:22 +0100 \ Alfredo Pagano: > The problem is that on my 2 machine I have a RAID 1 with : > > ~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md0 111G 12G 94G 11% / > tmpfs1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm > > so, I don't k

Re: [DRBD-user] fsckcmd=fsck.ext3 -p -y

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-13 16:25:22 +0100 \ Alessandro Ferrari: > DRBD 0.7.17 > > > Hi, > >in a previous version of DRBD there is a fsckcmd setting in drbd.conf. I > can't find this command into 0.7.17. >So, how does the slave-server check filesystem ext3 error when a > master-server crash? basical

[DRBD-user] make install problem

2014-05-29 Thread Alessandro Ferrari
DRBD 0.7.17 KERNEL 2.4.32 SMP Hi, I note a make install problem on documentation dir: `drbdsetup.8' -> `/usr/share/man/man8/drbdsetup.8' `drbd.conf.5' -> `/usr/share/man/man5/drbd.conf.5' `drbd.8' -> `/usr/share/man/man8/drbd.8' `drbdadm.8' -> `/usr/share/man/man8/drbdadm.8' `drbddisk.8' ->

[DRBD-user] fsckcmd=fsck.ext3 -p -y

2014-05-29 Thread Alessandro Ferrari
DRBD 0.7.17 Hi, in a previous version of DRBD there is a fsckcmd setting in drbd.conf. I can't find this command into 0.7.17. So, how does the slave-server check filesystem ext3 error when a master-server crash? Thanks, Alessandro ___ drb

[DRBD-user] drbd 0.7.16/hearteat 2.0.3 failure issues

2014-05-29 Thread Verbeeck Derek
Greetings all, I am running a pair of identical servers: FC2 kernel 2.6.15.1 heartbeat 2.0.3 configured w/ auto_failback on and drbd 0.7.16 mirroring between the nodes Things are pretty resilient in the event of a power failure or network failure, however, in the event that both nodes are up and

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD configuration

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-10 11:56:16 +0530 \ ejazahmad.k...@wipro.com: > Hi Ellenberg, > > I will be very thankful if you please help me to resolve my query. > > I have installed & configured drbd-0.7.16 on two systems. When trying to start > the drbd by issuing command "/etc/init.d/drbd start" I am getting thi

Re: [DRBD-user] Upgrade .7.10 -> 0.7.17 config error

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-09 10:54:17 -0800 \ Gary W. Smith: > We started the process of upgrading some of our dev clusters from 0.7.10 to > 0.7.17 today and found that the config file that worked under .0.7.10 throws > errors under 0.7.17. There is also an oddity in /proc/drbd. > > It seems to be a trivial work

Re: [DRBD-user] [DRBD-announce] drbd-0.7.17.tar.gz

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-09 16:27:37 +0100 \ Bernd Schubert: > Hello, > > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 15:22, Philipp Reisner wrote: > > 0.7.17 (api:77/proto:74) > > - > > * There was a bug that could cause the activity log to be not applied > >after a primary crash, when an other size than 127 elements w

Re: [DRBD-user] Small meta device?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-04 14:30:08 + \ Casey Allen Shobe: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 13:32, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > > > Is there a way I can reduce the size of the meta disk in drbd.conf? > > Dug through the archives, and found that the despairing answer is apparently > 'no', so I've repartitioned thi

Re: [DRBD-user] Filesystem Inconsisteny

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-09 09:31:39 +0100 \ Stay, Stefan (EXT): > Hello list, > > we use an auto-install-mechanism, to install our software load on our systems. [...] > (4.3GB of diskless blades OS - Repositorys) [...] interessting. you happen to be some sort of provider? > Kernel: 2.6.10_mvlcge40 I don't kn

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD starts too long (in about of 1,5 minutes).

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-04 00:45:11 +0300 \ Igor Yu. Zhbanov: > Hello! > > I am using DRBD v0.7.16 on top of set of software RAIDs: > > md8 = raid1 (sdc1, (md6 = raid0 (sdb1, sda1))); // DRBD-meta > md9 = raid1 (sdc2, (md7 = raid0 (sda2, sdb2))); // DRBD-data > The size of DRBD-data is about 400 GB. > The sto

Re: [DRBD-user] Small meta device?

2014-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg
/ 2006-03-04 15:57:02 +0100 \ Lars Ellenberg: > / 2006-03-04 14:30:08 + > \ Casey Allen Shobe: > > On Saturday 04 March 2006 13:32, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > > > > Is there a way I can reduce the size of the meta disk in drbd.conf? > > > > Dug through the archives, and found that the despairi

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