Install DRBD(Distributed Replicated Block Device) and set Disk mirroring

This example based on my environment below. I used hda6 that is empty partition for this config.
(1) www.server-linux.info[192.168.0.18]
(2) www2.server-linux.info[192.168.0.21]

Install and configure DRBD on both Host. Configure the same settings on them. For installing, Specify "kmod-drbd", the DRBD is also installed.The package that you need is e.g :-

1) drbd82-8.2.6-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm

2) kmod-drbd82-8.2.6-2.i686.rpm

[root@www ~]# yum -y install kmod-drbd-xen

[root@www ~]# vi /etc/drbd.conf

resource r0 {

# Specify A or B or C

protocol C;

syncer {

# band width

rate 300M;

}

disk {

on-io-error detach;

}

on www.server-linux.info {

# DRBD device

device /dev/drbd0;

# phisical device

disk /dev/hda6;

# IP address:port

address 192.168.0.18:7788;

meta-disk internal;

}

on www2.server-linux.info {

device /dev/drbd0;

disk /dev/hda6;

address 192.168.0.21:7788;

meta-disk internal;

}

}

[root@www ~]# modprobe drbd

# load module
[root@www ~]# lsmod | grep drbd
drbd      185096   0

# just loaded
[root@www ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda6 bs=1M count=128
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 2.39478 seconds, 56.0 MB/s
[root@www ~]#

drbdadm create-md r0

 

# create meta-data

v08 Magic number not found
v07 Magic number not found
v07 Magic number not found
v08 Magic number not found
Writing meta data...
initialising activity log
NOT initialized bitmap
New drbd meta data block sucessfully created.

--== Creating metadata ==--

As with nodes we count the total number of devices mirrored by DRBD at
at http://usage.drbd.org.

The counter works completely anonymous. A random number gets created for
this device, and that randomer number and the devices size will be sent.

http://usage.drbd.org/cgi-bin/insert_usage.pl?nu=5112098206248082396&ru=12990301505065341479&rs=1073741824
Enter 'no' to opt out, or just press [return] to continue:
success

[root@www ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/drbd start

[root@www ~]# cat /proc/drbd

# show status

version: 8.0.11 (api:86/proto:86)
GIT-hash: b3fe2bdfd3b9f7c2f923186883eb9e2a0d3a5b1b build by buildsvn@c5-i386-build, 2008-03-09 10:26:43
  0: cs:Connected st:Secondary/Secondary ds:Inconsistent/Inconsistent C r---
 

ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 

resync: used:0/31 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0 

act_log: used:0/127 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0

[2]	Make a Host you set primary first. Then mirroring is started

[root@www ~]# drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 primary -o #make it primary

drbd0: Forced to consider local data as UpToDate!

[root@www ~]# cat  /proc/drbd

version: 8.0.11 (api:86/proto:86)
GIT-hash: b3fe2bdfd3b9f7c2f923186883eb9e2a0d3a5b1b build by buildsvn@c5-i386-build, 2008-03-09 10:26:43
0: cs:SyncSource st:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/Inconsistent C r---  # changed

      ns:77968 nr:0 dw:0 dr:85524 al:0 bm:4 lo:111 pe:259 ua:1999 ap:0 

      [>...................] sync'ed: 7.5% (971572/1048508)K

      finish: 0:00:37 speed: 25,644 (25,644) K/sec

      resync: used:2/31 hits:40719 misses:6 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:6

      act_log: used:0/127 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0

[root@www ~]# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/drbd0

[root@www ~]# mkdir /mnt/drbd

[root@www ~]# mount /dev/drbd0 /mnt/drbd

[root@www ~]# touch /mnt/drbd/test.txt # make test file

[root@www ~]# ll /mnt/drbd

total 16
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 11 02:18 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 11 02:22 test.txt

[3] If you'd like to mount DRBD device on secondary Host, unmount DRBD device on primary Host first and make primary Host secondary first. Next make secondary Host primary and mount DRBD devicet

########### on primary host ########### [root@www ~]# umount  /mnt/drbd [root@www ~]# drbdadm secondary r0 # make it secondary ########### on secondary host ########### [root@www2 ~]# drbdadm primary r0 # make it primary [root@www2 ~]# mkdir /mnt/drbd [root@www2 ~]# mount /dev/drbd0 /mnt/drbd [root@www2 ~]# ll /mnt/drbd total 16 drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 11 02:18 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 11 02:22 test.txt   [4] Resolve the issue (split brain) been happen in  currently whereby drbd response status showing unknown status. to recover a split brain status in drbd here is the following steps need to be taken:- under Slave drbd run the following command :- #drbdadm disconnect all # drbdadm -- --discard-my-data connect all Primary drbd # drbd connect all # service drbd start