[Pacemaker] stonith/SBD question in the event of a lost node

[mark - pacemaker list]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse.com> wrote:

> On 2012-04-02T11:01:31, mark - pacemaker list <m+pacemaker at nerdish.us>
> wrote:
>
> > Debian's corosync/pacemaker scripts don't include a way to start SBD, you
> > have to work up something on your own to get it started prior to
> corosync's
> > startup (from testing SBD with RHEL I seem to recall that its scripts
> will
> > start SBD for you, and that it has to be running before the other
> > components start).  I'm simply starting it as:  /usr/sbin/sbd -d
> > /dev/mapper/quorumdisk-sbd1 -W -D watch
> > ... prior to corosync running.  Does that seem reasonable?
>
> It's reasonable, but you've got to make sure that corosync doesn't get
> started if this fails.
>

OK, my startup script checks that sbd returns 0 and additionally checks
that it's running via pidof before starting corosync.


>
> And, of course, I assume that that LV is not actually managed by cLVM2
> or anything, and is shared between all the nodes etc.
>

Yes, it's actually just an iscsi volume shared by the nodes, the
/dev/mapper name is what it gets based on multipath.conf

I appreciate your help,
Mark




>
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>    Lars
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