[DRBD-user] [severity critical] Unable to re-use device in stand-alone mode

Vadym Chepkov vchepkov at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 13:47:53 CEST 2011

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


If you don't care for preserving data, why don't you recreate metadata?
drbdadm create-md ...

Cheers,
Vadym
On Apr 1, 2011 6:47 AM, "Helmut Wollmersdorfer" <
helmut.wollmersdorfer at fixpunkt.de> wrote:
>
> Am 01.04.2011 um 09:54 schrieb Helmut Wollmersdorfer:
>
>>
>> Am 31.03.2011 um 18:02 schrieb Brian R. Hellman:
>>
>>> If you're really sure you want to be primary and blow away the data
>>> on
>>> the other node you can do:
>>
>>> drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary drbd1_2
>>
>>> Where drbd1_2 is the device you want to promote to become your new
>>> primary.
>>
>> root at xen09:/# cat /proc/drbd
>> version: 8.3.7 (api:88/proto:86-91)
>> srcversion: EE47D8BF18AC166BE219757
>>
>> 1: cs:WFConnection ro:Primary/Unknown ds:UpToDate/Outdated C r----
>> ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:200 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:b oos:
>> 1424
>> 2: cs:WFConnection ro:Secondary/Unknown ds:Consistent/DUnknown C r----
>> ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:b oos:0
>>
>> root at xen09:/# drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary drbd1_2
>> 2: State change failed: (-2) Refusing to be Primary without at least
>> one UpToDate disk
>> Command 'drbdsetup 2 primary --overwrite-data-of-peer' terminated
>> with exit code 17
>>
>> If there is no way to reuse the device then it's a grave bug or
>> misconception of DRBD.
>> Isn't it the main reason to use DRBD to have a usable device in the
>> case of a damaged hardware-node?
>
> Now changed the topic to 'critical' bug, because it's a show-stopper
> for my project.
>
> Read TFM again and again -- no solution.
>
> Helmut Wollmersdorfer
>
>
>
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