Re: [SSI-devel] [DRBD] drbd-0.7.7-ssi_pre19.patch

[Aneesh K. K.V <ane...@hp...>]

Jaideep Dharap wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> How does drbd handle the syncing of these two nodes when they coming 
>>> back and are able to talk to
>>> each other?  Which one is determined to be the primary copy?
>>>
>>
>> in case of Debian who ever is the CFS server for root is the primary 
>> for all DRBD resources.
>>
>>
>> -aneesh
>>
> Shouldnt it be left to the sysadmin to decide which one should be the 
> primary in case of a conflict?  The other copy might be the more recent 
> one.
>  

In that case the user can boot whichever node he thinks contain the 
latest file system image first so that i becomes the CFS root server 
node or the init node.

-aneesh