[DRBD-user] Rescue after reduce :(

Florian Haas florian at hastexo.com
Fri May 25 11:36:45 CEST 2012

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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Felix Frank <ff at mpexnet.de> wrote:
> On 05/25/2012 11:03 AM, Florian Haas wrote:
>>>> fsck of your /dev/drbdX device, I hope?
>>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Yes, on the /dev/drbd0. Otherwise fsck would have thrown errors, right?
>> Only if the filesystem had errors. :) You can always pretty much do
>> anything with DRBD's backing device if DRBD isn't using it.
>
> Uhm, but then DRBD won't know about the fixes that fsck has applied,
> right? Isn't this setting yourself up for inconsistent disks among your
> nodes?
>
> One would probably want to do a verify after such stunts anyway, I presume.

Definitely, but the question was whether fsck would throw errors just
from being run against a DRBD backing device. Which it wouldn't.

Florian

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