A fence_sbd stonith device floods the logs with "Doing flush + writing 'b' to sysrq on timeout" in a Pacemaker cluster
Issue
- Messages like the following appear frequently in
/var/log/messages
on a node where afence_sbd
stonith device is in Started state.
Jan 20 16:51:58 fastvm-rhel-7-6-21 sbd[24627]: notice: main: Doing flush + writing 'b' to sysrq on timeout
Jan 20 16:51:58 fastvm-rhel-7-6-21 sbd[24638]: notice: main: Doing flush + writing 'b' to sysrq on timeout
Jan 20 16:51:58 fastvm-rhel-7-6-21 sbd[24641]: notice: main: Doing flush + writing 'b' to sysrq on timeout
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (with the High Availability Add-on)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (with the High Availability Add-on)
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