[DRBD-user] during sync, inconsistant side becomes primary

Matthieu Labbé matthieu.labbe at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 18:07:01 CEST 2011

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Hello,

A DRBD primary can serve data from the secondary (and even be diskless).

I hope this helps,
Matt.


2011/10/21 Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I shut down my primary for a disk upgrade.  After the upgrade, the primary was inconsistent (obviously, it was missing 13 hours of uptime data).
>
> Heartbeat made the unit primary again, even though the data was inconsistent.
>
> How does DRBD handle reads from a known inconsistent primary?
>
> Gerald
>
> version: 8.3.7 (api:88/proto:86-91)
> GIT-hash: ea9e28dbff98e331a62bcbcc63a6135808fe2917 build by root at filer-1, 2011-03-05 08:29:38
>
>  1: cs:SyncTarget ro:Primary/Secondary ds:Inconsistent/UpToDate C r----
>    ns:3889896 nr:119684960 dw:123558136 dr:1413208 al:2527 bm:12480 lo:710 pe:710 ua:710 ap:0 ep:1 wo:d oos:284816636
>        [====>...............] sync'ed: 29.6% (278140/395036)M
>        finish: 2:19:53 speed: 33,932 (29,128) K/sec
>
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