[DRBD-user] Question about Activity Log

Philipp Reisner philipp.reisner at linbit.com
Mon Sep 20 11:13:51 CEST 2004

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On Tuesday 14 September 2004 17:12, Benoit.Ropartz at alcatel.fr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My Primary node (A) crash and Heartbeat activate services on other node
> (B).
>
> DRBD is Primary on B (cs=WFConnection).
>
> When A restart, i see these messages in syslog :
>
> Jan  2 05:59:23 SML_A kernel: drbd3: Found 6 transactions (324 active
> extents) in activity log.
> Jan  2 05:59:23 SML_A kernel: drbd3: Marked additional 131584 KB as
> out-of-sync
>

Here DRBD tells you that it used the AL, to determin which regions
on the disk needs to be synchronized (instead of the whole device, 
which would have been the behaviour of drbd-0.6.x)

>
> When DRBD connection is up, a synchronisation is activate with A as
> SyncTarget and B as
> SyncSource.
>
> It seem that in this situation, DRBD doesn't use AL of node A ??? is it
> true...
>

No!

-Philipp
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