[DRBD-user] --discard-my-data on which node?

Tom Brown brown at esteem.com
Sun Feb 11 23:39:55 CET 2007

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On Saturday 10 February 2007 20:52, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to get my production servers back up and running. I am
> using version 8.0rc1. During boot up, the two nodes ended up in a split
> brain due to an error in my config. Node1 has the good data. Node2 has the
> stale data. I want to connect them and have them syncronize from node1 to
> node2. Which node do I run 'drbdadm -- --discard-my-data connect'?
>
> The man page says: "By passing this option you make a node to sync target
> immediatly after sucessfull connect."
>
> So, is the man page saying I want to run the command on node2 so it becomes
> the sync target?

I backed everything up and went for it. As the '--discard-my-data' option 
suggests, the node you run it on becomes the sync target. I picked the right 
node. ;)

Thanks,
Tom



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