Have you tried to set VDO in async mode ?<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1621246131234"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1621246131442">Best Regards,</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1621246134824">Strahil Nikolov<br> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:57, Klaus Wenninger</div><div><kwenning@redhat.com> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv7380066700"><div>
    <div class="yiv7380066700moz-cite-prefix">Did you try VDO in sync-mode for the
      case the flush-fua</div>
    <div class="yiv7380066700moz-cite-prefix">stuff isn't working through the layers?</div>
    <div class="yiv7380066700moz-cite-prefix">Did you check that VDO-service is
      disabled and solely under</div>
    <div class="yiv7380066700moz-cite-prefix">pacemaker-control and that the
      dependencies are set correctly?</div>
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    <div class="yiv7380066700moz-cite-prefix">Klaus<br clear="none">
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    <div class="yiv7380066700moz-cite-prefix">On 5/17/21 6:17 AM, Eric Robinson
      wrote:<br clear="none">
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        <p class="yiv7380066700MsoNormal">Yes, DRBD is working fine. </p> 
        <p class="yiv7380066700MsoNormal">  </p> 
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              <p class="yiv7380066700MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Strahil Nikolov
                <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" class="yiv7380066700moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:hunter86_bg@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:hunter86_bg@yahoo.com"><hunter86_bg@yahoo.com></a> <br clear="none">
                <b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 16, 2021 6:06 PM<br clear="none">
                <b>To:</b> Eric Robinson
                <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" class="yiv7380066700moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com"><eric.robinson@psmnv.com></a>; Cluster Labs - All
                topics related to open-source clustering welcomed
                <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" class="yiv7380066700moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:users@clusterlabs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:users@clusterlabs.org"><users@clusterlabs.org></a><br clear="none">
                <b>Subject:</b> RE: [ClusterLabs] DRBD + VDO HowTo?</p> 
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          <p class="yiv7380066700MsoNormal">  </p> 
          <p class="yiv7380066700MsoNormal">Are you sure that the DRBD is working
            properly ?</p> 
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            <p class="yiv7380066700MsoNormal">Best Regards,</p> 
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            <p class="yiv7380066700MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">Strahil
              Nikolov</p> 
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                  <p class="yiv7380066700MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#6D00F6;">On Mon,
                      May 17, 2021 at 0:32, Eric Robinson</span></p> 
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                  <p class="yiv7380066700MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#6D00F6;"><<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com">eric.robinson@psmnv.com</a>>
                      wrote:</span></p> 
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                      <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal">Okay, it turns
                        out I was wrong. I thought I had it working, but
                        I keep running into problems. Sometimes when I
                        demote a DRBD resource on Node A and promote it
                        on Node B, and I try to mount the filesystem,
                        the system complains that it cannot read the
                        superblock. But when I move the DRBD primary
                        back to Node A, the file system is mountable
                        again. Also, I have problems with filesystems
                        not mounting because the vdo devices are not
                        present. All kinds of issues.</p> 
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                        <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"> </p> 
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                              <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"><b>From:</b>
                                Users <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:users-bounces@clusterlabs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:users-bounces@clusterlabs.org">users-bounces@clusterlabs.org</a>>
                                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric Robinson<br clear="none">
                                <b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 14, 2021 3:55
                                PM<br clear="none">
                                <b>To:</b> Strahil Nikolov <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:hunter86_bg@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:hunter86_bg@yahoo.com">hunter86_bg@yahoo.com</a>>;
                                Cluster Labs - All topics related to
                                open-source clustering welcomed <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:users@clusterlabs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:users@clusterlabs.org">users@clusterlabs.org</a>><br clear="none">
                                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [ClusterLabs] DRBD +
                                VDO HowTo?</p> 
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                          <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"> </p> 
                          <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"> </p> 
                          <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal">Okay, I have
                            it working now. The default systemd service
                            definitions did not work, so I created my
                            own.
                            </p> 
                          <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"> </p> 
                          <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"> </p> 
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                                <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"><b>From:</b>
                                  Strahil Nikolov <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:hunter86_bg@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:hunter86_bg@yahoo.com">hunter86_bg@yahoo.com</a>>
                                  <br clear="none">
                                  <b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 14, 2021 3:41
                                  AM<br clear="none">
                                  <b>To:</b> Eric Robinson <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com">eric.robinson@psmnv.com</a>>;
                                  Cluster Labs - All topics related to
                                  open-source clustering welcomed <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:users@clusterlabs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:users@clusterlabs.org">users@clusterlabs.org</a>><br clear="none">
                                  <b>Subject:</b> RE: [ClusterLabs] DRBD
                                  + VDO HowTo?</p> 
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                            <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"> </p> 
                            <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal">There is
                              no VDO RA according to my knowledge, but
                              you can use systemd service as a resource.</p> 
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                              <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"> </p> 
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                              <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal">Yet, the
                                VDO service that comes with thr OS is a
                                generic one and controlls all VDOs - so
                                you need to create your own vdo service.</p> 
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                              <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"> </p> 
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                              <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal">Best
                                Regards,</p> 
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                              <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">Strahil
                                Nikolov</p> 
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                                    <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#6D00F6;">On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 6:55,
                                        Eric Robinson</span></p> 
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                                    <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#6D00F6;"><<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com">eric.robinson@psmnv.com</a>>
                                        wrote:</span></p> 
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                                        <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4">I
                                          created the VDO volumes fine
                                          on the drbd devices, formatted
                                          them as xfs filesystems,
                                          created cluster filesystem
                                          resources, and the cluster us
                                          using them. But the cluster
                                          won’t fail over. Is there a
                                          VDO cluster RA out there
                                          somewhere already? </p> 
                                        <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4"> </p> 
                                        <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4"> </p> 
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                                              <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4"><b>From:</b>
                                                Strahil Nikolov <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:hunter86_bg@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:hunter86_bg@yahoo.com">hunter86_bg@yahoo.com</a>>
                                                <br clear="none">
                                                <b>Sent:</b> Thursday,
                                                May 13, 2021 10:07 PM<br clear="none">
                                                <b>To:</b> Cluster Labs
                                                - All topics related to
                                                open-source clustering
                                                welcomed <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:users@clusterlabs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:users@clusterlabs.org">users@clusterlabs.org</a>>;
                                                Eric Robinson <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com">eric.robinson@psmnv.com</a>><br clear="none">
                                                <b>Subject:</b> Re:
                                                [ClusterLabs] DRBD + VDO
                                                HowTo?</p> 
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                                          <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4"> </p> 
                                          <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4">For
                                            DRBD there is enough info,
                                            so let's focus on VDO.</p> 
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                                            <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4">There
                                              is a systemd service that
                                              starts all VDOs on the
                                              system. You can create the
                                              VDO once drbs is open for
                                              writes and then you can
                                              create your own systemd
                                              '.service' file which can
                                              be used as a cluster
                                              resource.<br clear="none">
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                                              Best Regards,</p> 
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                                            <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4">Strahil
                                              Nikolov</p> 
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                                                  <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4"><span style="color:#6D00F6;">On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:33, Eric Robinson</span></p> 
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                                                  <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal4"><span style="color:#6D00F6;"><<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:eric.robinson@psmnv.com">eric.robinson@psmnv.com</a>> wrote:</span></p> 
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                                                      <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal31">Can
                                                        anyone point to
                                                        a document on
                                                        how to use VDO
                                                        de-duplication
                                                        with DRBD?
                                                        Linbit has a
                                                        blog page about
                                                        it, but it was
                                                        last updated 6
                                                        years ago and
                                                        the embedded
                                                        links are dead.</p> 
                                                      <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal31"> </p> 
                                                      <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal31"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://linbit.com/blog/albireo-virtual-data-optimizer-vdo-on-drbd/">https://linbit.com/blog/albireo-virtual-data-optimizer-vdo-on-drbd/</a></p> 
                                                      <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal31"> </p> 
                                                      <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal31">-Eric</p> 
                                                      <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal31"> </p> 
                                                      <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal31"> </p> 
                                                      <p class="yiv7380066700msonormal31"> </p> 
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                            are confidential and intended solely for
                            intended recipients. If you are not the
                            named addressee you should not disseminate,
                            distribute, copy or alter this email. Any
                            views or opinions presented in this email
                            are solely those of the author and might not
                            represent those of Physician Select
                            Management. Warning: Although Physician
                            Select Management has taken reasonable
                            precautions to ensure no viruses are present
                            in this email, the company cannot accept
                            responsibility for any loss or damage
                            arising from the use of this email or
                            attachments.
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                        any files transmitted with it are confidential
                        and intended solely for intended recipients. If
                        you are not the named addressee you should not
                        disseminate, distribute, copy or alter this
                        email. Any views or opinions presented in this
                        email are solely those of the author and might
                        not represent those of Physician Select
                        Management. Warning: Although Physician Select
                        Management has taken reasonable precautions to
                        ensure no viruses are present in this email, the
                        company cannot accept responsibility for any
                        loss or damage arising from the use of this
                        email or attachments.
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      confidential and intended solely for intended recipients. If you
      are not the named addressee you should not disseminate,
      distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions
      presented in this email are solely those of the author and might
      not represent those of Physician Select Management. Warning:
      Although Physician Select Management has taken reasonable
      precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the
      company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage
      arising from the use of this email or attachments.
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