Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2006-04-24 12:01:49 +0100 \ matt at oncampusuk.co.uk: > I had an unexpected syncing all last time one of my servers went down. > Can you tell me what I did wrong? > > I am using drbd 0.6.12 > at this point I got a syncing all message. I thought that by putting > drbd into secondary on the secondary machine, I could do a quick sync. > What should I have done? > I'm not a subscriber, so for any replies - please cc this address in. normally non-subscribers are not allowed to post, and due to the amount of spam the list-moderator has to dig through, these posts are likely to get lost. anyways. with drbd 0.6, you will _allways_ have a full sync, when you had a primary crash, because the bitmap used for the "quick" sync is held only in memory, thus can only be used if the secondary goes away and comes back _while the primary keeps being primary_. once you lose the primary in drbd 0.6, you will get a full sync. to make the "quick sync bitmap" persistent (in the meta data area) was one of the major improvements in drbd 0.7 ... -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schoenbrunner Str. 244, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.