[DRBD-user] Promote client-only to complete node ?

Julien Escario julien.escario at altinea.fr
Wed Sep 13 09:27:22 CEST 2017

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Le 12/09/2017 à 11:39, Roland Kammerer a écrit :
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 09:49:26AM +0200, Julien Escario wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to 'promote' a client node to have a local copy of datas but can't
>> find any reference to such command in manual.
>>
>> I tried :
>> vm-260-disk-1 role:Secondary
>>   disk:Diskless
>>   vm4 role:Secondary
>>     peer-disk:UpToDate
>>   vm5 role:Secondary
>>     peer-disk:UpToDate
>>
>> This one is in secondary state (VM not running) so I could unassign/assign this
>> ressource to this node without problem.
>>
>> But if the ressource is already in primary state, any way to ask for a local
>> copy of datas with drbdmanage ?
> 
> Definitely not with drbdmanage. You have to get that node in Secondary
> state and then drbdmanage unassign/assign.

Thanks for this clear answer ! Perhaps something to add to the todo list ?
From my point of view, technically, nothing seems to block this feature but in
term of code base, this is probably harder.

Best regards,
Julien Escario

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