Re: RHCS and drbd integration (was Re: [Linux-cluster] High Availability option)

[Werner Saar <saar pop-dresden de>]

Quoting Riaan van Niekerk <riaan obsidian co za>:

> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > We've build a very similar HA Cluster with multiple network RAID1 block
> > devices some month ago with RHES 4U3 / RHCS 6.1 and DRBD.  After some
> > fight with the start scripts of RHCS we're now in production with a
> > postgresql DB, some application servers and also a huge NFS share
> > exported to a front end RHCS cluster. All the 'services' use its own
> > block devices  mirrored by DRBD to a second machine. Till now 
> > everything is running very well and speedy.
> > There is only one thing to mention, if you have multiple DRBD block
> > devices to replicate you should have different mirror groups for the
> > replication in the DRBD config. Otherwise it is very easy to saturate
> > even a gig eth.
> >
> >
> > Greetings
> > 	Andreas
>
>
> hi Andreas
>
> Would you care to share you startup scripts? I have looked at drbd as 
> a shared storage replacement in RHCS 4. However the fact that drbd 
> expects promote and demote as script/service parameters (for the 
> heartbeat package drbd resource scripts) and RHCS only understands 
> stop/start, some scripting will need to happen. Please let us others 
> interested in this combination not have the same fight.
>
> If there is anyone else using drbd with RHCS 4, I would really 
> appreciate it if you could post the relevant scripts which will make 
> rgmanager play nice with drbd.
>
> To anyone that knows LVM mirroring: if LVM mirroring becomes stable, 
> will it negate the need for drbd?
>
> To anoyone familiar with Fedora and the inclusion of new features / 
> packages. What would it take to make drbd part of FC and the new 
> cluster middleware in FC (and potentially RHEL). Or (again), will LVM 
> mirroring negate that requirement?
>
> thank you in advance
> Riaan

Hi,

I use this script

#!/bin/bash
DRBDADM="/sbin/drbdadm"

if [ -f $DEFAULTFILE ]; then
 . $DEFAULTFILE
fi

CMD=$1
NUM=0
RES=r${NUM}

case "$CMD" in
   start)
       # Nicht Starten, wenn aktuell SyncTarget
       cat /proc/drbd|grep "^ ${NUM}: cs:SyncTarget" && exit 1
       # try several times, in case heartbeat deadtime
       # was smaller than drbd ping time
       try=6
       while true; do
               $DRBDADM primary $RES && break
               let "--try" || exit 1
               sleep 1
       done
       ;;
   stop)

       # Nicht Stoppen, wenn aktuelle SyncSource
       cat /proc/drbd|grep "^ ${NUM}: cs:SyncSource" && exit 0
       # exec, so the exit code of drbdadm propagates
       $DRBDADM secondary $RES
       RET=$?
       if [ $RET = "0" ]; then
               exit 0
       else
               exit 1
       fi
       ;;
   status)
       if [ "$RES" = "all" ]; then
           echo "A resource name is required for status inquiries."
           exit 10
       fi
       ST=$( $DRBDADM state $RES 2> /dev/null )
       ST=${ST%/*}
       if [ "$ST" = "Primary" ]; then
           echo "running"
           exit 0
       else
           echo "stopped"
           exit 3
       fi
       ;;
   *)
       echo "Usage: drbddisk [resource] {start|stop|status}"
       exit 1
       ;;
esac

exit 0


Greetings
  Werner

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