Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 04/12/2012 08:09 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Rasto Levrinc <rasto.levrinc at gmail.com> >> > 2012/4/12 Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal at gmail.com>: >>> >> I have a device /dev/drbd0 on which I have an ext3 filesystem. It >>> >> needs fsck because there are problems on it. I want to stop drbd >>> >> between the two nodes, then run fsck on primary. Then [if] I have >>> >> problems [after fscking the] primary, I will be able to use the >>> >> secondary node [even though fsck failed miserably]. > [snip] >> > You can omit --discard-my-data, the fsck repairs will be replicated to >> > the secondary. > Except Rafal doesn't want to do that. He wants to stop the secondary before > fscking, in case e2fsck destroys the data on the primary. Yes, but still - after it's all done, you will connect the secondary, and you will not need to discard any data. The data *must* be discarded from the damaged (fsck'd) node in case the OP wants to revert to the state of the former secondary.