Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> I'm not able to connect nodes anymore. Any hints? Options
> --discard-my-data seems not to be present in version 8.
You have to execute
drbdadm -- --discard-my-data connect $resource
^^
If you omit these "--", drbdadm will say that this option is not available.