[DRBD-user] Promote client-only to complete node ?

Roland Kammerer roland.kammerer at linbit.com
Tue Sep 12 11:39:49 CEST 2017

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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 09:49:26AM +0200, Julien Escario wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to 'promote' a client node to have a local copy of datas but can't
> find any reference to such command in manual.
> 
> I tried :
> vm-260-disk-1 role:Secondary
>   disk:Diskless
>   vm4 role:Secondary
>     peer-disk:UpToDate
>   vm5 role:Secondary
>     peer-disk:UpToDate
> 
> This one is in secondary state (VM not running) so I could unassign/assign this
> ressource to this node without problem.
> 
> But if the ressource is already in primary state, any way to ask for a local
> copy of datas with drbdmanage ?

Definitely not with drbdmanage. You have to get that node in Secondary
state and then drbdmanage unassign/assign.

Regards, rck



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