Comment 4 for bug 443321

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote :

The process of mounting DRBD devices is a bit complex. Something like this should be achieved:

network started -> drbd service started -> drbd devices synced -> server becomes (drbd) primary -> mount drbd device

I understand Ari's idea and have to think about it for a bit. Ari's suggestion doesn't guarante that DRBD will be mountable; it's missing a step - DRBD becoming primary. I understand that this works for him, but we have to consider implications on secondary node, which won't be primary and will also try mouting device (if we ship something like this by default). Will mountnfs then fail and give up mounting all other network filesystems? And, if mountnfs is started before drbd devices are synced, mounting drbd devices wil fail.

I don't think we can cover all use cases of drbd. Drbd with some kind of cluster manager is probably most common use case.