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nixos/modules/ha/pacemaker-stack.nix
beatzaplentyandClaude Sonnet 4.6 724d9a45af feat(ha): add NixOS modules for DRBD+XFS+LIO+Corosync+Pacemaker HA stack
All 7 acceptance tests pass on live NixOS 25.11 VMs (VMIDs 200/201 on
pve1).  Failover completes in ~5 s with data integrity verified.

modules/ha/pacemaker-stack.nix — fixes four NixOS-specific breakages:
  - systemd StateDirectory resets /var/lib/pacemaker to root:root; removed
    and replaced with ExecStartPre to create/chown dirs as hacluster
  - HA_SBIN_DIR points to a non-existent Nix store path; overridden to
    /run/current-system/sw/bin so crm_master resolves correctly
  - OCF agents need an explicit broad PATH (iproute2, util-linux, xfsprogs,
    drbd, bash, etc.) — NixOS services have no implicit PATH
  - FUSER=true bypasses the psmisc fuser check_binary call in the
    Filesystem OCF agent (psmisc not installed on minimal hosts)

modules/ha/iscsi-target.nix — LIO iSCSI target via targetctl with a
Python/rtslib_fb ExecStop that explicitly clears the kernel LIO state
(not just saves JSON), so the XFS backing store's file descriptor is
released before umount — preventing EBUSY stop timeouts on failover.
Includes an empty-config guard so the secondary node never overwrites
the primary's saveconfig.json with an empty one.

test-lab/ha/common.nix — updated to import both modules, use fencing
dont-care (no STONITH in test lab), omit LVM handlers (non-existent on
NixOS paths), and merge repeated services/networking attr sets to satisfy
statix W20.  test-lab/ha/acceptance-tests.sh — final v4 with crm_standby
fix (pacemaker 3.x API).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HaH1cSGvhogRP5ExoF6nD8
2026-07-27 09:13:55 +10:00

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# Pacemaker + Corosync HA stack for NixOS with known-good workarounds.
#
# Issues fixed here (confirmed through live testing on NixOS 25.11):
#
# 1. StateDirectory ownership reset: systemd's StateDirectory=pacemaker
# creates /var/lib/pacemaker owned root:root. pacemaker-based (the CIB
# daemon) runs as the hacluster user and calls pcmk__daemon_can_write,
# which requires the CIB directory to be owned by hacluster or be
# group-writable by haclient. Workaround: remove StateDirectory and let
# ExecStartPre create every required subdirectory with correct ownership.
#
# 2. HA_SBIN_DIR wrong path: ocf-shellfuncs sets HA_SBIN_DIR to the Nix
# store path of the resource-agents derivation's /sbin, which doesn't
# exist. The DRBD OCF agent uses ${HA_SBIN_DIR}/crm_master, so it exits
# 127 without this override. Fix: export HA_SBIN_DIR=/run/current-system/sw/bin.
#
# 3. Broad PATH for OCF agents: the resource executor (pacemaker-execd) runs
# OCF agent scripts as children. NixOS provides no implicit PATH for
# system services; without an explicit PATH the agents can't find ip, ss,
# mount, umount, drbdadm, etc.
#
# 4. FUSER=true: the Filesystem OCF agent calls check_binary $FUSER (default:
# fuser from psmisc), which is not installed. Setting FUSER=true makes
# check_binary succeed (true is always in PATH) and the subsequent
# "$FUSER -km $mountpoint" becomes a no-op. Pair with force_unmount=false
# on each Filesystem resource unless you want lazy unmount behaviour.
{ lib, pkgs, ... }:
let
ocfBinPath = lib.concatStringsSep ":" [
"${pkgs.iproute2}/bin"
"${pkgs.iproute2}/sbin"
"${pkgs.iputils}/bin"
"${pkgs.util-linux}/bin"
"${pkgs.util-linux}/sbin"
"${pkgs.gawk}/bin"
"${pkgs.gnugrep}/bin"
"${pkgs.gnused}/bin"
"${pkgs.coreutils}/bin"
"${pkgs.bash}/bin"
"${pkgs.procps}/bin"
"${pkgs.xfsprogs}/bin"
"${pkgs.drbd}/bin"
"${pkgs.python3}/bin"
"/run/current-system/sw/bin"
"/run/current-system/sw/sbin"
"/usr/local/sbin"
"/usr/local/bin"
"/usr/sbin"
"/usr/bin"
"/sbin"
"/bin"
];
# Single pre-start script: schemas symlink + directory ownership.
# Runs before pacemakerd so pacemaker-based finds hacluster-owned dirs.
preStartCmd = "${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash -c '"
+ "ln -sfn ${pkgs.pacemaker}/share/pacemaker /var/lib/pacemaker/schemas; "
+ "for d in /var/lib/pacemaker /var/lib/pacemaker/cib /var/lib/pacemaker/cores "
+ "/var/lib/pacemaker/pengine /var/lib/pacemaker/blackbox "
+ "/var/lib/pacemaker/hostcache; do "
+ "mkdir -p \"\\$d\" && chown hacluster:pacemaker \"\\$d\" && chmod 2770 \"\\$d\"; "
+ "done'";
ocfEnv = {
PATH = lib.mkForce ocfBinPath;
OCF_ROOT = "${pkgs.ocf-resource-agents}/usr/lib/ocf";
HA_SBIN_DIR = "/run/current-system/sw/bin";
FUSER = "true";
};
in
{
users.groups.haclient = { };
services.corosync.enable = true;
services.pacemaker.enable = true;
systemd.services = {
pacemaker = {
serviceConfig = {
StateDirectory = lib.mkForce "";
ExecStartPre = lib.mkBefore [ preStartCmd ];
};
environment = ocfEnv;
};
pacemaker-execd.environment = ocfEnv;
};
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
corosync
pacemaker
ocf-resource-agents
];
}