Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
That's a great question. I recently banged my head into the wall until I decided to force it manually. drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 primary --do-what-I-say Another thing that is odd, is the HOWTO uses /dev/nb0 while I've come across documentation that mentions that the nb* devices are no longer used and to switch to drbd* instead. Hth, Peter John Lange wrote: >In the DRBD How-To, it gives the following instructions on how to setup >your drbd device. > >In section 4.x, it says: >----snip---- >drbd also allows you to setup everything in a drbd.conf file > >[...] > >After you create the drbd.conf file, go to thost1, and run the following >command: > >$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/drbd start > >Do the same thing on thost2 > >$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/drbd start > >At this point, you should have a mirror between the 2 devices. You can >verify this by looking at /proc/drbd > >$ cat /proc/drbd > >Now you can make a filesystem on the device, and mount it on machine >thost1. >----snip---- > >Since the config files is not designed to indicate a primary node, how >does drbd know which node should be the primary? > > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20040916/47738942/attachment.pgp>