Re: [Drbd-dev] Primary/Diskless node cannot reconnect

[Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 05:25:44PM -0500, Graham, Simon wrote:
> If you are in a situation where one node is Primary/Diskless and the
> other Secondary/UpToDate, DRDB works just fine, redirecting the I/O to
> the secondary node. However, if you then lose the network connection for
> any reasons (say some sort of transient issue), DRBD will not allow the
> connection to be re-established even though nothing has actually
> changed.
> 
> When the connect request comes in, you see this trace message:
> 
>        Can only connect to data with current UUID=XXXXX
> 
> Which is output by receive_uuids in drbd_receiver.c. I understand why
> this check should be made _if_ you actually have a local disk on the
> Primary, but if you are Diskless I think it is not necessary and results
> in unnecessary problems. My proposed fix is to add an explicit test for
> Diskless in the if statement so that it only does the check for current
> UUID if the disk state is > Diskless.
> 
> Proposed patch attached against 8.2.

8.2 is dead.
has been fixed differently in 8.3 already,
where the corresponding code looks like

 if (mdev->state.conn < C_CONNECTED &&
            mdev->state.disk < D_INCONSISTENT &&
            mdev->state.role == R_PRIMARY &&
            (mdev->ed_uuid & ~((u64)1)) != (p_uuid[UI_CURRENT] & ~((u64)1))) {


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