Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:48:54AM -0700, A. Shaw wrote: > Hello, > > We have a situation where the underlying JFS partition > of our (disconnected) DRBD setup was fsck'd. The > underlying filesystem is clean and accessible directly > now, but we need to bring it back into DRBD-land. > We're wondering if this possible by somehow > re-generating, flushing, or otherwise getting the now > out-of-sync DRBD metadata back into a happy state. > > Our alternative is to make a new DRBD setup elsewhere, > and copy all of our data over -- which is possible but > has some drawbacks for us. > > Thanks in advance for any advice, you have no way in telling drbd which parts are out of sync, so you have to do a full sync. you can initiate this using "drbdadm invalidate" on the node which shal become sync target. so on the "bad" data, do drbdadm attach; drbdadm invalidate; drbdadm syncer; drbdadm connect; but make sure the good data is Primary before you connect the other node, just in case. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.