[DRBD-user] Unable to fix out of sync sectors

Norbert Tretkowski tretkowski at ip-exchange.de
Fri Jun 13 14:30:36 CEST 2008

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


Am Mittwoch, den 11.06.2008, 20:05 +0200 schrieb Lars Ellenberg:
> then just to get an additional data point,
> start it from the secondary.

I also get the out of sync messages when starting verification from the
secondary.

But I get completely different out of sync blocks every time I start a
verification.

> it also may be a known side effect of the file system.

We're using XFS on LVM on DRBD.

> as an experiment, you may want to do an online verify on a completely
> idle device (unmounted, not touched by anything), and compare (using 
> dd, xxd, whatever) by hand any block reported as out-of-sync.

Will do that next week.

Thanks, Norbert





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