bsradm

SYNOPSIS

drbdadm [options...] [-- [ backend-options...]] {command} {context...}

DESCRIPTION

The drbdadm utility is used for managing DRBD based on its configuration files, see drbd.conf(5). It translates high-level commands into one or more lower-level commands for the drbdsetup and drbdmeta utilities, which control the kernel module and manipulate the on-disk metadata.Depending on the command, the drbdadm utility operates on one or more resources, devices, connections, or peer devices. The following command contexts are defined:resource

A resource specified by name, or the keyword all for all defined resources.

device

A device, specified by minor number (minor- minornumber, e.g. minor-0) or by resource and volume number ( resource/volume). If only a resource is specified, the command iterates over all devices of that resource.

connection

A connection, specified by resource and connection name ( resource:connection-name). If only a resource is specified, the command iterates over all connections of that resource.

peer_device

A peer device, specified by resource, connection name, and volume number ( resource:connection-name/volume). If only a resource, device, or connection is specified, the command iterates over all peer devices of that resource, device, or connection.

All options following a double-dash are passed through to the lower-level utilities as specified. In addition, drbdadm understands most of the options of drbdsetup, and will pass them through even without the double-dash.

OPTIONS

• d

, --dry-run

Show which commands drbdadm would execute instead of actually executing them (for example, drbdadm -d up resource). This can be a useful way to learn how drbdsetup and drbdmeta are used.

• c

, --config-file file

Use an alternative configuration file. By default, drbdadm will use the the first of the following files that exists: /etc/drbd-90.conf, /etc/drbd-84.conf, /etc/drbd-83.conf, /etc/drbd-82.conf, /etc/drbd-08.conf, /etc/drbd.conf.

• t

, --config-to-test file

Check an additional configuration file. This option is only allowed with the dump and the sh-nop commands.

• s

, --drbdsetup file

Specifies the full path to the drbdsetup program. If this option is omitted, drbdadm will look for it beneath itself first, and then in the PATH.

• m

, --drbdmeta file

Specifies the full path to the drbdmeta program. If this option is omitted, drbdadm will look for it beneath itself first, and then in the PATH.

• S

, --stacked

Perform the command on a stacked resource.

COMMANDS

adjust { resource}

Adjust the configuration of the kernel module so that it matches the configuration files. The result should be the same as when stopping and restarting all resources ( drbdadm down all followed by drbdadm up all), but without the interruptions. Note that the adjust command can misinterpret the configuration change in some cases. To be safe, check what the command would do (with the --dry-run option) before running the actual command.

adjust-with-progress { resource}

The same as adjust, but with some more information about the command's progress.

apply-al { device}

Apply the activity log of the specified device. See drbdmeta(8) for details.

attach { device}

Attach a lower-level device to an existing replicated device. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

check-resize { device}

Call drbdmeta to eventually move internal meta data. If the backing device was resized, while DRBD was not running, meta data has to be moved to the end of the device, so that the next attach command can succeed.

connect { connection}

Activate an exisiting connection to a peer. The connection needs to be created first with the new-peer command, and have at least one path created with the new-path command. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

create-md { device}

Initialize the metadata of a device. This is necessary before a device can be attached; see drbdmeta(8) for details.

cstate { connection}

Show the current state of a connection. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

detach { device}

Detach the lower-level device of a replicated device. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

disconnect { connection}

Remove a connection to a peer host. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

disk-options { device}

Change the disk options of an attached lower-level device. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

down { resource}

Take a resource down by removing all volumes, connections, and the resource itself. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

dstate { device}

Show the current disk state of a lower-level device. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

dump { resource}

Parse the configuration file and dump it to stdout. This will fail if the configuration file is syntactically incorrect.

dump-md { device}

Dump the metadata of a device in text form, including the bitmap and activity log. See drbdmeta(8) for details.

get-gi { peer_device}

Show the data generation identifiers for a device on a particular connection. Uses drbdsetup for attached devices and drbdmeta for unattached devices. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

hidden-commands

Shows all commands which are not explicitly documented.

invalidate { peer_device}

Replace the local data of a device with that of a peer. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

invalidate-remote { peer_device}

Replace a peer device's data of a resource with the local data. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

net-options { connection}

Change the network options of an existing connection. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

new-current-uuid { device}

Generate a new currend UUID. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

outdate { device}

Mark the data on a lower-level device as outdated. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

pause-sync { peer_device}

Stop resynchronizing between a local and a peer device by setting the local pause flag. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

primary { resource}

Change the role of a node in a resource to primary. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

resize { device}

Resize the lower-level devices of a replicated device on all nodes. This combines the check-resize and resize lower-level commands; see drbdsetup(8) for details.

resource-options { resource}

Change the resource options of an existing resource. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

resume-sync { peer_device}

Allow resynchronization to resume by clearing the local sync pause flag. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

role { resource}

Show the current role of a resource.

secondary { resource}

Change the role of a node in a resource to secondary. This command fails if the replicated device is in use.

show-gi { peer_device}

Show the data generation identifiers for a device on a particular connection. In addition, explain the output. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

state { resource}

This is an alias for drbdsetup role. Deprecated.

up { resource}

Bring up a resource by applying the activity log of all volumes, creating the resource, creating the replicated devices, attaching the lower-level devices, and connecting to all peers. See the apply-al drbdmeta command and the new-resource, new-device, new-minor, attach, and connect drbdsetup commands.

verify { peer_device}

Start online verification, change which part of the device will be verified, or stop online verification. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

wait-connect {[ device] | [connection] | [resource]}

Wait until a device on a peer, all devices over a connection, or all devices on all peers are visible. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

wait-sync {[ device] | [connection] | [resource]}

Wait until a device is connected and has finished eventual resync operation. Also available on connection and resource level. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

wipe-md { device}

Wipe out the DRBD metadata of a device. See drbdmeta(8) for details.

forget-peer { connection}

Completely remove any reference to a unconnected peer from meta-data. See drbdmeta(8) for details.

bsrsetup

SYNOPSIS

drbdsetup command {argument...} [option...]

DESCRIPTION

The drbdsetup utility serves to configure the DRBD kernel module and to show its current configuration. Users usually interact with the drbdadm utility, which provides a more high-level interface to DRBD than drbdsetup. (See drbdadm's --dry-run option to see how drbdadm uses drbdsetup.)Some option arguments have a default scale which applies when a plain number is specified (for example Kilo, or 1024 times the numeric value). Such default scales can be overridden by using a suffix (for example, M for Mega). The common suffixes K = 2^10 = 1024, M = 1024 K, and G = 1024 M are supported.

COMMANDS

drbdsetup attach minor lower_dev meta_data_dev meta_data_index,

drbdsetup disk-options minor

The attach command attaches a lower-level device to an existing replicated device. The disk-options command changes the disk options of an attached lower-level device. In either case, the replicated device must have been created with drbdsetup new-minor. Both commands refer to the replicated device by its minor number. lower_dev is the name of the lower-level device. meta_data_dev is the name of the device containing the metadata, and may be the same as lower_dev. meta_data_index is either a numeric metadata index, or the keyword internal for internal metadata, or the keyword flexible for variable-size external metadata. Available options:--al-extents extentsDRBD automatically maintains a "hot" or "active" disk area likely to be written to again soon based on the recent write activity. The "active" disk area can be written to immediately, while "inactive" disk areas must be "activated" first, which requires a meta-data write. We also refer to this active disk area as the "activity log". The activity log saves meta-data writes, but the whole log must be resynced upon recovery of a failed node. The size of the activity log is a major factor of how long a resync will take and how fast a replicated disk will become consistent after a crash. The activity log consists of a number of 4-Megabyte segments; the al-extents parameter determines how many of those segments can be active at the same time. The default value for al-extents is 1237, with a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 65536. Note that the effective maximum may be smaller, depending on how you created the device meta data, see also drbdmeta(8) The effective maximum is 919 * (available on-disk activity-log ring-buffer area/4kB -1), the default 32kB ring-buffer effects a maximum of 6433 (covers more than 25 GiB of data) We recommend to keep this well within the amount your backend storage and replication link are able to resync inside of about 5 minutes.--al-updates {yes | no}With this parameter, the activity log can be turned off entirely (see the al-extents parameter). This will speed up writes because fewer meta-data writes will be necessary, but the entire device needs to be resynchronized opon recovery of a failed primary node. The default value for al-updates is yes.--disk-barrier, --disk-flushes, --disk-drainDRBD has three methods of handling the ordering of dependent write requests:disk-barrierUse disk barriers to make sure that requests are written to disk in the right order. Barriers ensure that all requests submitted before a barrier make it to the disk before any requests submitted after the barrier. This is implemented using 'tagged command queuing' on SCSI devices and 'native command queuing' on SATA devices. Only some devices and device stacks support this method. The device mapper (LVM) only supports barriers in some configurations. Note that on systems which do not support disk barriers, enabling this option can lead to data loss or corruption. Until DRBD 8.4.1, disk-barrier was turned on if the I/O stack below DRBD did support barriers. Kernels since linux-2.6.36 (or 2.6.32 RHEL6) no longer allow to detect if barriers are supported. Since drbd-8.4.2, this option is off by default and needs to be enabled explicitly.disk-flushesUse disk flushes between dependent write requests, also referred to as 'force unit access' by drive vendors. This forces all data to disk. This option is enabled by default.disk-drainWait for the request queue to "drain" (that is, wait for the requests to finish) before submitting a dependent write request. This method requires that requests are stable on disk when they finish. Before DRBD 8.0.9, this was the only method implemented. This option is enabled by default. Do not disable in production environments. From these three methods, drbd will use the first that is enabled and supported by the backing storage device. If all three of these options are turned off, DRBD will submit write requests without bothering about dependencies. Depending on the I/O stack, write requests can be reordered, and they can be submitted in a different order on different cluster nodes. This can result in data loss or corruption. Therefore, turning off all three methods of controlling write ordering is strongly discouraged. A general guideline for configuring write ordering is to use disk barriers or disk flushes when using ordinary disks (or an ordinary disk array) with a volatile write cache. On storage without cache or with a battery backed write cache, disk draining can be a reasonable choice.--disk-timeoutIf the lower-level device on which a DRBD device stores its data does not finish an I/O request within the defined disk-timeout, DRBD treats this as a failure. The lower-level device is detached, and the device's disk state advances to Diskless. If DRBD is connected to one or more peers, the failed request is passed on to one of them. This option is dangerous and may lead to kernel panic! "Aborting" requests, or force-detaching the disk, is intended for completely blocked/hung local backing devices which do no longer complete requests at all, not even do error completions. In this situation, usually a hard-reset and failover is the only way out. By "aborting", basically faking a local error-completion, we allow for a more graceful swichover by cleanly migrating services. Still the affected node has to be rebooted "soon". By completing these requests, we allow the upper layers to re-use the associated data pages. If later the local backing device "recovers", and now DMAs some data from disk into the original request pages, in the best case it will just put random data into unused pages; but typically it will corrupt meanwhile completely unrelated data, causing all sorts of damage. Which means delayed successful completion, especially for READ requests, is a reason to panic(). We assume that a delayed *error* completion is OK, though we still will complain noisily about it. The default value of disk-timeout is 0, which stands for an infinite timeout. Timeouts are specified in units of 0.1 seconds. This option is available since DRBD 8.3.12.--md-flushesEnable disk flushes and disk barriers on the meta-data device. This option is enabled by default. See the disk-flushes parameter.--on-io-error handlerConfigure how DRBD reacts to I/O errors on a lower-level device. The following policies are defined:pass_onChange the disk status to Inconsistent, mark the failed block as inconsistent in the bitmap, and retry the I/O operation on a remote cluster node.call-local-io-errorCall the local-io-error handler (see the handlers section).detachDetach the lower-level device and continue in diskless mode. --read-balancing policyDistribute read requests among cluster nodes as defined by policy. The supported policies are prefer-local (the default), prefer-remote, round-robin, least-pending, when-congested-remote, 32K-striping, 64K-striping, 128K-striping, 256K-striping, 512K-striping and 1M-striping. This option is available since DRBD 8.4.1.resync-after minorDefine that a device should only resynchronize after the specified other device. By default, no order between devices is defined, and all devices will resynchronize in parallel. Depending on the configuration of the lower-level devices, and the available network and disk bandwidth, this can slow down the overall resync process. This option can be used to form a chain or tree of dependencies among devices.--size sizeSpecify the size of the lower-level device explicitly instead of determining it automatically. The device size must be determined once and is remembered for the lifetime of the device. In order to determine it automatically, all the lower-level devices on all nodes must be attached, and all nodes must be connected. If the size is specified explicitly, this is not necessary. The size value is assumed to be in units of sectors (512 bytes) by default.--discard-zeroes-if-aligned {yes | no}There are several aspects to discard/trim/unmap support on linux block devices. Even if discard is supported in general, it may fail silently, or may partially ignore discard requests. Devices also announce whether reading from unmapped blocks returns defined data (usually zeroes), or undefined data (possibly old data, possibly garbage). If on different nodes, DRBD is backed by devices with differing discard characteristics, discards may lead to data divergence (old data or garbage left over on one backend, zeroes due to unmapped areas on the other backend). Online verify would now potentially report tons of spurious differences. While probably harmless for most use cases (fstrim on a file system), DRBD cannot have that. To play safe, we have to disable discard support, if our local backend (on a Primary) does not support "discard_zeroes_data=true". We also have to translate discards to explicit zero-out on the receiving side, unless the receiving side (Secondary) supports "discard_zeroes_data=true", thereby allocating areas what were supposed to be unmapped. There are some devices (notably the LVM/DM thin provisioning) that are capable of discard, but announce discard_zeroes_data=false. In the case of DM-thin, discards aligned to the chunk size will be unmapped, and reading from unmapped sectors will return zeroes. However, unaligned partial head or tail areas of discard requests will be silently ignored. If we now add a helper to explicitly zero-out these unaligned partial areas, while passing on the discard of the aligned full chunks, we effectively achieve discard_zeroes_data=true on such devices. Setting discard-zeroes-if-aligned to yes will allow DRBD to use discards, and to announce discard_zeroes_data=true, even on backends that announce discard_zeroes_data=false. Setting discard-zeroes-if-aligned to no will cause DRBD to always fall-back to zero-out on the receiving side, and to not even announce discard capabilities on the Primary, if the respective backend announces discard_zeroes_data=false. We used to ignore the discard_zeroes_data setting completely. To not break established and expected behaviour, and suddenly cause fstrim on thin-provisioned LVs to run out-of-space instead of freeing up space, the default value is yes. This option is available since 8.4.7.--rs-discard-granularity byteWhen rs-discard-granularity is set to a non zero, positive value then DRBD tries to do a resync operation in requests of this size. In case such a block contains only zero bytes on the sync source node, the sync target node will issue a discard/trim/unmap command for the area. The value is constrained by the discard granularity of the backing block device. In case rs-discard-granularity is not a multiplier of the discard granularity of the backing block device DRBD rounds it up. The feature only gets active if the backing block device reads back zeroes after a discard command. The default value of is 0. This option is available since 8.4.7.

drbdsetup peer-device-options resource peer_node_id volume

These are options that affect the peer's device.--c-delay-target delay_target, --c-fill-target fill_target, --c-max-rate max_rate, --c-plan-ahead plan_timeDynamically control the resync speed. This mechanism is enabled by setting the c-plan-ahead parameter to a positive value. The goal is to either fill the buffers along the data path with a defined amount of data if c-fill-target is defined, or to have a defined delay along the path if c-delay-target is defined. The maximum bandwidth is limited by the c-max-rate parameter. The c-plan-ahead parameter defines how fast drbd adapts to changes in the resync speed. It should be set to five times the network round-trip time or more. Common values for c-fill-target for "normal" data paths range from 4K to 100K. If drbd-proxy is used, it is advised to use c-delay-target instead of c-fill-target. The c-delay-target parameter is used if the c-fill-target parameter is undefined or set to 0. The c-delay-target parameter should be set to five times the network round-trip time or more. The c-max-rate option should be set to either the bandwidth available between the DRBD-hosts and the machines hosting DRBD-proxy, or to the available disk bandwidth. The default values of these parameters are: c-plan-ahead = 20 (in units of 0.1 seconds), c-fill-target = 0 (in units of sectors), c-delay-target = 1 (in units of 0.1 seconds), and c-max-rate = 102400 (in units of KiB/s). Dynamic resync speed control is available since DRBD 8.3.9.--c-min-rate min_rateA node which is primary and sync-source has to schedule application I/O requests and resync I/O requests. The c-min-rate parameter limits how much bandwidth is available for resync I/O; the remaining bandwidth is used for application I/O. A c-min-rate value of 0 means that there is no limit on the resync I/O bandwidth. This can slow down application I/O significantly. Use a value of 1 (1 KiB/s) for the lowest possible resync rate. The default value of c-min-rate is 4096, in units of KiB/s.--resync-rate rateDefine how much bandwidth DRBD may use for resynchronizing. DRBD allows "normal" application I/O even during a resync. If the resync takes up too much bandwidth, application I/O can become very slow. This parameter allows to avoid that. Please note this is option only works when the dynamic resync controller is disabled.

drbdsetup check-resize minor

Remember the current size of the lower-level device of the specified replicated device. Used by drbdadm. The size information is stored in file /var/lib/drbd/drbd-minor- minor.lkbd.

drbdsetup new-peer resource peer_node_id,

drbdsetup net-options resource peer_node_id

The new-peer command creates a connection within a resource. The resource must have been created with drbdsetup new-resource. The net-options command changes the network options of an existing connection. Before a connection can be activated with the connect command, at least one path need to added with the new-path command. Available options:--after-sb-0pri policyDefine how to react if a split-brain scenario is detected and none of the two nodes is in primary role. (We detect split-brain scenarios when two nodes connect; split-brain decisions are always between two nodes.) The defined policies are:disconnectNo automatic resynchronization; simply disconnect.discard-younger-primary, discard-older-primaryResynchronize from the node which became primary first ( discard-younger-primary) or last (discard-older-primary). If both nodes became primary independently, the discard-least-changes policy is used.discard-zero-changesIf only one of the nodes wrote data since the split brain situation was detected, resynchronize from this node to the other. If both nodes wrote data, disconnect.discard-least-changesResynchronize from the node with more modified blocks.discard-node-nodenameAlways resynchronize to the named node.--after-sb-1pri policyDefine how to react if a split-brain scenario is detected, with one node in primary role and one node in secondary role. (We detect split-brain scenarios when two nodes connect, so split-brain decisions are always among two nodes.) The defined policies are:disconnectNo automatic resynchronization, simply disconnect.consensusDiscard the data on the secondary node if the after-sb-0pri algorithm would also discard the data on the secondary node. Otherwise, disconnect.violently-as0pAlways take the decision of the after-sb-0pri algorithm, even if it causes an erratic change of the primary's view of the data. This is only useful if a single-node file system (i.e., not OCFS2 or GFS) with the allow-two-primaries flag is used. This option can cause the primary node to crash, and should not be used.discard-secondaryDiscard the data on the secondary node.call-pri-lost-after-sbAlways take the decision of the after-sb-0pri algorithm. If the decision is to discard the data on the primary node, call the pri-lost-after-sb handler on the primary node.--after-sb-2pri policyDefine how to react if a split-brain scenario is detected and both nodes are in primary role. (We detect split-brain scenarios when two nodes connect, so split-brain decisions are always among two nodes.) The defined policies are:disconnectNo automatic resynchronization, simply disconnect.violently-as0pSee the violently-as0p policy for after-sb-1pri.call-pri-lost-after-sbCall the pri-lost-after-sb helper program on one of the machines unless that machine can demote to secondary. The helper program is expected to reboot the machine, which brings the node into a secondary role. Which machine runs the helper program is determined by the after-sb-0pri strategy.--allow-two-primariesThe most common way to configure DRBD devices is to allow only one node to be primary (and thus writable) at a time. In some scenarios it is preferable to allow two nodes to be primary at once; a mechanism outside of DRBD then must make sure that writes to the shared, replicated device happen in a coordinated way. This can be done with a shared-storage cluster file system like OCFS2 and GFS, or with virtual machine images and a virtual machine manager that can migrate virtual machines between physical machines. The allow-two-primaries parameter tells DRBD to allow two nodes to be primary at the same time. Never enable this option when using a non-distributed file system; otherwise, data corruption and node crashes will result!--always-asbpNormally the automatic after-split-brain policies are only used if current states of the UUIDs do not indicate the presence of a third node. With this option you request that the automatic after-split-brain policies are used as long as the data sets of the nodes are somehow related. This might cause a full sync, if the UUIDs indicate the presence of a third node. (Or double faults led to strange UUID sets.)--connect-int timeAs soon as a connection between two nodes is configured with drbdsetup connect, DRBD immediately tries to establish the connection. If this fails, DRBD waits for connect-int seconds and then repeats. The default value of connect-int is 10 seconds.--cram-hmac-alg hash-algorithmConfigure the hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) or secure hash algorithm to use for peer authentication. The kernel supports a number of different algorithms, some of which may be loadable as kernel modules. See the shash algorithms listed in /proc/crypto. By default, cram-hmac-alg is unset. Peer authentication also requires a shared-secret to be configured.--csums-alg hash-algorithmNormally, when two nodes resynchronize, the sync target requests a piece of out-of-sync data from the sync source, and the sync source sends the data. With many usage patterns, a significant number of those blocks will actually be identical. When a csums-alg algorithm is specified, when requesting a piece of out-of-sync data, the sync target also sends along a hash of the data it currently has. The sync source compares this hash with its own version of the data. It sends the sync target the new data if the hashes differ, and tells it that the data are the same otherwise. This reduces the network bandwidth required, at the cost of higher cpu utilization and possibly increased I/O on the sync target. The csums-alg can be set to one of the secure hash algorithms supported by the kernel; see the shash algorithms listed in /proc/crypto. By default, csums-alg is unset.--csums-after-crash-onlyEnabling this option (and csums-alg, above) makes it possible to use the checksum based resync only for the first resync after primary crash, but not for later "network hickups". In most cases, block that are marked as need-to-be-resynced are in fact changed, so calculating checksums, and both reading and writing the blocks on the resync target is all effective overhead. The advantage of checksum based resync is mostly after primary crash recovery, where the recovery marked larger areas (those covered by the activity log) as need-to-be-resynced, just in case. Introduced in 8.4.5.--data-integrity-alg algDRBD normally relies on the data integrity checks built into the TCP/IP protocol, but if a data integrity algorithm is configured, it will additionally use this algorithm to make sure that the data received over the network match what the sender has sent. If a data integrity error is detected, DRBD will close the network connection and reconnect, which will trigger a resync. The data-integrity-alg can be set to one of the secure hash algorithms supported by the kernel; see the shash algorithms listed in /proc/crypto. By default, this mechanism is turned off. Because of the CPU overhead involved, we recommend not to use this option in production environments. Also see the notes on data integrity below.--fencing fencing_policyFencing is a preventive measure to avoid situations where both nodes are primary and disconnected. This is also known as a split-brain situation. DRBD supports the following fencing policies:dont-careNo fencing actions are taken. This is the default policy.resource-onlyIf a node becomes a disconnected primary, it tries to fence the peer. This is done by calling the fence-peer handler. The handler is supposed to reach the peer over an alternative communication path and call ' drbdadm outdate minor' there.resource-and-stonithIf a node becomes a disconnected primary, it freezes all its IO operations and calls its fence-peer handler. The fence-peer handler is supposed to reach the peer over an alternative communication path and call ' drbdadm outdate minor' there. In case it cannot do that, it should stonith the peer. IO is resumed as soon as the situation is resolved. In case the fence-peer handler fails, I/O can be resumed manually with ' drbdadm resume-io'.--ko-count numberIf a secondary node fails to complete a write request in ko-count times the timeout parameter, it is excluded from the cluster. The primary node then sets the connection to this secondary node to Standalone. To disable this feature, you should explicitly set it to 0; defaults may change between versions.--max-buffers numberLimits the memory usage per DRBD minor device on the receiving side, or for internal buffers during resync or online-verify. Unit is PAGE_SIZE, which is 4 KiB on most systems. The minimum possible setting is hard coded to 32 (=128 KiB). These buffers are used to hold data blocks while they are written to/read from disk. To avoid possible distributed deadlocks on congestion, this setting is used as a throttle threshold rather than a hard limit. Once more than max-buffers pages are in use, further allocation from this pool is throttled. You want to increase max-buffers if you cannot saturate the IO backend on the receiving side.--max-epoch-size numberDefine the maximum number of write requests DRBD may issue before issuing a write barrier. The default value is 2048, with a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 20000. Setting this parameter to a value below 10 is likely to decrease performance.--on-congestion policy, --congestion-fill threshold, --congestion-extents thresholdBy default, DRBD blocks when the TCP send queue is full. This prevents applications from generating further write requests until more buffer space becomes available again. When DRBD is used together with DRBD-proxy, it can be better to use the pull-ahead on-congestion policy, which can switch DRBD into ahead/behind mode before the send queue is full. DRBD then records the differences between itself and the peer in its bitmap, but it no longer replicates them to the peer. When enough buffer space becomes available again, the node resynchronizes with the peer and switches back to normal replication. This has the advantage of not blocking application I/O even when the queues fill up, and the disadvantage that peer nodes can fall behind much further. Also, while resynchronizing, peer nodes will become inconsistent. The available congestion policies are block (the default) and pull-ahead. The congestion-fill parameter defines how much data is allowed to be "in flight" in this connection. The default value is 0, which disables this mechanism of congestion control, with a maximum of 10 GiBytes. The congestion-extents parameter defines how many bitmap extents may be active before switching into ahead/behind mode, with the same default and limits as the al-extents parameter. The congestion-extents parameter is effective only when set to a value smaller than al-extents. Ahead/behind mode is available since DRBD 8.3.10.--ping-int intervalWhen the TCP/IP connection to a peer is idle for more than ping-int seconds, DRBD will send a keep-alive packet to make sure that a failed peer or network connection is detected reasonably soon. The default value is 10 seconds, with a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 120 seconds. The unit is seconds.--ping-timeout timeoutDefine the timeout for replies to keep-alive packets. If the peer does not reply within ping-timeout, DRBD will close and try to reestablish the connection. The default value is 0.5 seconds, with a minimum of 0.1 seconds and a maximum of 3 seconds. The unit is tenths of a second.--socket-check-timeout timeoutIn setups involving a DRBD-proxy and connections that experience a lot of buffer-bloat it might be necessary to set ping-timeout to an unusual high value. By default DRBD uses the same value to wait if a newly established TCP-connection is stable. Since the DRBD-proxy is usually located in the same data center such a long wait time may hinder DRBD's connect process. In such setups socket-check-timeout should be set to at least to the round trip time between DRBD and DRBD-proxy. I.e. in most cases to 1. The default unit is tenths of a second, the default value is 0 (which causes DRBD to use the value of ping-timeout instead). Introduced in 8.4.5.--protocol nameUse the specified protocol on this connection. The supported protocols are:AWrites to the DRBD device complete as soon as they have reached the local disk and the TCP/IP send buffer.BWrites to the DRBD device complete as soon as they have reached the local disk, and all peers have acknowledged the receipt of the write requests.CWrites to the DRBD device complete as soon as they have reached the local and all remote disks. --rcvbuf-size sizeConfigure the size of the TCP/IP receive buffer. A value of 0 (the default) causes the buffer size to adjust dynamically. This parameter usually does not need to be set, but it can be set to a value up to 10 MiB. The default unit is bytes.--rr-conflict policyThis option helps to solve the cases when the outcome of the resync decision is incompatible with the current role assignment in the cluster. The defined policies are:disconnectNo automatic resynchronization, simply disconnect.violentlyResync to the primary node is allowed, violating the assumption that data on a block device are stable for one of the nodes. Do not use this option, it is dangerous.call-pri-lostCall the pri-lost handler on one of the machines. The handler is expected to reboot the machine, which puts it into secondary role.--shared-secret secretConfigure the shared secret used for peer authentication. The secret is a string of up to 64 characters. Peer authentication also requires the cram-hmac-alg parameter to be set.--sndbuf-size sizeConfigure the size of the TCP/IP send buffer. Since DRBD 8.0.13 / 8.2.7, a value of 0 (the default) causes the buffer size to adjust dynamically. Values below 32 KiB are harmful to the throughput on this connection. Large buffer sizes can be useful especially when protocol A is used over high-latency networks; the maximum value supported is 10 MiB.--tcp-corkBy default, DRBD uses the TCP_CORK socket option to prevent the kernel from sending partial messages; this results in fewer and bigger packets on the network. Some network stacks can perform worse with this optimization. On these, the tcp-cork parameter can be used to turn this optimization off.--timeout timeDefine the timeout for replies over the network: if a peer node does not send an expected reply within the specified timeout, it is considered dead and the TCP/IP connection is closed. The timeout value must be lower than connect-int and lower than ping-int. The default is 6 seconds; the value is specified in tenths of a second.--use-rleEach replicated device on a cluster node has a separate bitmap for each of its peer devices. The bitmaps are used for tracking the differences between the local and peer device: depending on the cluster state, a disk range can be marked as different from the peer in the device's bitmap, in the peer device's bitmap, or in both bitmaps. When two cluster nodes connect, they exchange each other's bitmaps, and they each compute the union of the local and peer bitmap to determine the overall differences. Bitmaps of very large devices are also relatively large, but they usually compress very well using run-length encoding. This can save time and bandwidth for the bitmap transfers. The use-rle parameter determines if run-length encoding should be used. It is on by default since DRBD 8.4.0.--verify-alg hash-algorithmOnline verification (drbdadm verify) computes and compares checksums of disk blocks (i.e., hash values) in order to detect if they differ. The verify-alg parameter determines which algorithm to use for these checksums. It must be set to one of the secure hash algorithms supported by the kernel before online verify can be used; see the shash algorithms listed in /proc/crypto. We recommend to schedule online verifications regularly during low-load periods, for example once a month. Also see the notes on data integrity below.

drbdsetup new-path resource peer_node_id local-addr remote-addr

The new-path command creates a path within a connection. The connection must have been created with drbdsetup new-peer. Local_addr and remote_addr refer to the local and remote protocol, network address, and port in the format [ address-family:] address[:port]. The address families ipv4, ipv6, ssocks (Dolphin Interconnect Solutions' "super sockets"), sdp (Infiniband Sockets Direct Protocol), and sci are supported ( sci is an alias for ssocks). If no address family is specified, ipv4 is assumed. For all address families except ipv6, the address uses IPv4 address notation (for example, 1.2.3.4). For ipv6, the address is enclosed in brackets and uses IPv6 address notation (for example, [fd01:2345:6789:abcd::1]). The port defaults to 7788.

drbdsetup connect resource peer_node_id

The connect command activates a connection. That means that the DRBD driver will bind and listen on all local addresses of the connection-'s paths. It will begin to try to establish one or more paths of the connection. Available options:--tentativeOnly determine if a connection to the peer can be established and if a resync is necessary (and in which direction) without actually establishing the connection or starting the resync. Check the system log to see what DRBD would do without the --tentative option.--discard-my-dataDiscard the local data and resynchronize with the peer that has the most up-to-data data. Use this option to manually recover from a split-brain situation.

drbdsetup del-peer resource peer_node_id

The del-peer command removes a connection from a resource.

drbdsetup del-path resource peer_node_id local-addr remote-addr

The del-path command removes a path from a connection. Please note that it fails if the path is necessary to keep a connected connection in tact. In order to remove all paths, disconnect the connection first.

drbdsetup cstate resource peer_node_id

Show the current state of a connection. The connection is identified by the node-id of the peer; see the drbdsetup connect command.

drbdsetup del-minor minor

Remove a replicated device. No lower-level device may be attached; see drbdsetup detach.

drbdsetup del-resource resource

Remove a resource. All volumes and connections must be removed first ( drbdsetup del-minor, drbdsetup disconnect). Alternatively, drbdsetup down can be used to remove a resource together with all its volumes and connections.

drbdsetup detach minor

Detach the lower-level device of a replicated device. Available options:--forceForce the detach and return immediately. This puts the lower-level device into failed state until all pending I/O has completed, and then detaches the device. Any I/O not yet submitted to the lower-level device (for example, because I/O on the device was suspended) is assumed to have failed. 

drbdsetup disconnect resource peer_node_id

Remove a connection to a peer host. The connection is identified by the node-id of the peer; see the drbdsetup connect command.

drbdsetup down {resource | all}

Take a resource down by removing all volumes, connections, and the resource itself.

drbdsetup dstate minor

Show the current disk state of a lower-level device.

drbdsetup events2 {resource | all}

Show the current state of all configured DRBD objects, followed by all changes to the state. The output format is meant to be human as well as machine readable. The line starts with a word that indicates the kind of event: exists for an existing object; create, destroy, and change if an object is created, destroyed, or changed; or call or response if an event handler is called or it returns. The second word indicates the object the event applies to: resource, device, connection, peer-device, helper, or a dash (-) to indicate that the current state has been dumped completely. The remaining words identify the object and describe the state that he object is in. Available options:--nowTerminate after reporting the current state. The default is to continuously listen and report state changes.--statisticsInclude statistics in the output. 

drbdsetup get-gi resource peer_node_id volume

Show the data generation identifiers for a device on a particular connection. The device is identified by its volume number. The connection is identified by its endpoints; see the drbdsetup connect command. The output consists of the current UUID, bitmap UUID, and the first two history UUIDS, folowed by a set of flags. The current UUID and history UUIDs are device specific; the bitmap UUID and flags are peer device specific. This command only shows the first two history UUIDs. Internally, DRBD maintains one history UUID for each possible peer device.

drbdsetup invalidate minor

Replace the local data of a device with that of a peer. All the local data will be marked out-of-sync, and a resync with the specified peer device will be initialted.

drbdsetup invalidate-remote resource peer_node_id volume

Replace a peer device's data of a resource with the local data. The peer device's data will be marked out-of-sync, and a resync from the local node to the specified peer will be initiated.

drbdsetup new-current-uuid minor

Generate a new current UUID and rotates all other UUID values. This has at least two use cases, namely to skip the initial sync, and to reduce network bandwidth when starting in a single node configuration and then later (re-)integrating a remote site. Available option:--clear-bitmapClears the sync bitmap in addition to generating a new current UUID. This can be used to skip the initial sync, if you want to start from scratch. This use-case does only work on "Just Created" meta data. Necessary steps: 1.On both nodes, initialize meta data and configure the device. drbdadm create-md --force res/volume-number 2.They need to do the initial handshake, so they know their sizes. drbdadm up res 3.They are now Connected Secondary/Secondary Inconsistent/Inconsistent. Generate a new current-uuid and clear the dirty bitmap. drbdadm --clear-bitmap new-current-uuid res 4.They are now Connected Secondary/Secondary UpToDate/UpToDate. Make one side primary and create a file system. drbdadm primary res mkfs -t fs-type $(drbdadm sh-dev res) One obvious side-effect is that the replica is full of old garbage (unless you made them identical using other means), so any online-verify is expected to find any number of out-of-sync blocks. You must not use this on pre-existing data! Even though it may appear to work at first glance, once you switch to the other node, your data is toast, as it never got replicated. So do not leave out the mkfs (or equivalent). This can also be used to shorten the initial resync of a cluster where the second node is added after the first node is gone into production, by means of disk shipping. This use-case works on disconnected devices only, the device may be in primary or secondary role. The necessary steps on the current active server are: 1.drbdsetup new-current-uuid --clear-bitmap minor 2.Take the copy of the current active server. E.g. by pulling a disk out of the RAID1 controller, or by copying with dd. You need to copy the actual data, and the meta data. 3.drbdsetup new-current-uuid minor Now add the disk to the new secondary node, and join it to the cluster. You will get a resync of that parts that were changed since the first call to drbdsetup in step 1.

drbdsetup new-minor resource minor volume

Create a new replicated device within a resource. The command creates a block device inode for the replicated device (by default, /dev/drbd minor). The volume number identifies the device within the resource.

drbdsetup new-resource resource node_id,

drbdsetup resource-options resource

The new-resource command creates a new resource. The resource-options command changes the resource options of an existing resource. Available options:--auto-promote bool-valueA resource must be promoted to primary role before any of its devices can be mounted or opened for writing. Before DRBD 9, this could only be done explicitly ("drbdadm primary"). Since DRBD 9, the auto-promote parameter allows to automatically promote a resource to primary role when one of its devices is mounted or opened for writing. As soon as all devices are unmounted or closed with no more remaining users, the role of the resource changes back to secondary. Automatic promotion only succeeds if the cluster state allows it (that is, if an explicit drbdadm primary command would succeed). Otherwise, mounting or opening the device fails as it already did before DRBD 9: the mount(2) system call fails with errno set to EROFS (Read-only file system); the open(2) system call fails with errno set to EMEDIUMTYPE (wrong medium type). Irrespective of the auto-promote parameter, if a device is promoted explicitly ( drbdadm primary), it also needs to be demoted explicitly (drbdadm secondary). The auto-promote parameter is available since DRBD 9.0.0, and defaults to yes.--cpu-mask cpu-maskSet the cpu affinity mask for DRBD kernel threads. The cpu mask is specified as a hexadecimal number. The default value is 0, which lets the scheduler decide which kernel threads run on which CPUs. CPU numbers in cpu-mask which do not exist in the system are ignored.--on-no-data-accessible policyDetermine how to deal with I/O requests when the requested data is not available locally or remotely (for example, when all disks have failed). The defined policies are:io-errorSystem calls fail with errno set to EIO.suspend-ioThe resource suspends I/O. I/O can be resumed by (re)attaching the lower-level device, by connecting to a peer which has access to the data, or by forcing DRBD to resume I/O with drbdadm resume-io res. When no data is available, forcing I/O to resume will result in the same behavior as the io-error policy. This setting is available since DRBD 8.3.9; the default policy is io-error.--peer-ack-window valueOn each node and for each device, DRBD maintains a bitmap of the differences between the local and remote data for each peer device. For example, in a three-node setup (nodes A, B, C) each with a single device, every node maintains one bitmap for each of its peers. When nodes receive write requests, they know how to update the bitmaps for the writing node, but not how to update the bitmaps between themselves. In this example, when a write request propagates from node A to B and C, nodes B and C know that they have the same data as node A, but not whether or not they both have the same data. As a remedy, the writing node occasionally sends peer-ack packets to its peers which tell them which state they are in relative to each other. The peer-ack-window parameter specifies how much data a primary node may send before sending a peer-ack packet. A low value causes increased network traffic; a high value causes less network traffic but higher memory consumption on secondary nodes and higher resync times between the secondary nodes after primary node failures. (Note: peer-ack packets may be sent due to other reasons as well, e.g. membership changes or expiry of the peer-ack-delay timer.) The default value for peer-ack-window is 2 MiB, the default unit is sectors. This option is available since 9.0.0.--peer-ack-delay expiry-timeIf after the last finished write request no new write request gets issued for expiry-time, then a peer-ack packet is sent. If a new write request is issued before the timer expires, the timer gets reset to expiry-time. (Note: peer-ack packets may be sent due to other reasons as well, e.g. membership changes or the peer-ack-window option.) This parameter may influence resync behavior on remote nodes. Peer nodes need to wait until they receive an peer-ack for releasing a lock on an AL-extent. Resync operations between peers may need to wait for for these locks. The default value for peer-ack-delay is 100 milliseconds, the default unit is milliseconds. This option is available since 9.0.0.--quorum valueWhen activated, a cluster partition requires quorum in order to modify the replicated data set. That means a node in the cluster partition can only be promoted to primary if the cluster partition has quorum. Every node with a disk directly connected to the node that should be promoted counts. If a primary node should execute a write request, but the cluster partition has lost quorum, it will freeze IO or reject the write request with an error (depending on the on-no-quorum setting). Upon loosing quorum a primary always invokes the quorum-lost handler. The handler is intended for notification purposes, its return code is ignored. The option's value might be set to off, majority, all or a numeric value. If you set it to a numeric value, make sure that the value is greater than half of your number of nodes. Quorum is a mechanism to avoid data divergence, it might be used instead of fencing when there are more than two repicas. It defaults to off If all missing nodes are marked as outdated, a partition always has quorum, no matter how small it is. I.e. If you disconnect all secondary nodes gracefully a single primary continues to operate. In the moment a single secondary is lost, it has to be assumed that it forms a partition with all the missing outdated nodes. In case my partition might be smaller than the other, quorum is lost in this moment. In case you want to allow permanently diskless nodes to gain quorum it is recommendet to not use majority or all. It is recommended to specify an absolute number, since DBRD's heuristic to determine the complete number of diskfull nodes in the cluster is unreliable. The quorum implementation is available starting with the DRBD kernel driver version 9.0.7.--quorum-minimum-redundancy valueThis option sets the minimal required number of nodes with an UpToDate disk to allow the partition to gain quorum. This is a different requirement than the plain quorum option expresses. The option's value might be set to off, majority, all or a numeric value. If you set it to a numeric value, make sure that the value is greater than half of your number of nodes. In case you want to allow permanently diskless nodes to gain quorum it is recommendet to not use majority or all. It is recommended to specify an absolute number, since DBRD's heuristic to determine the complete number of diskfull nodes in the cluster is unreliable. This option is available starting with the DRBD kernel driver version 9.0.10.--on-no-quorum {io-error | suspend-io}By default DRBD freezes IO on a device, that lost quorum. By setting the on-no-quorum to io-error it completes all IO operations with an error if quorum ist lost. The on-no-quorum options is available starting with the DRBD kernel driver version 9.0.8. 

drbdsetup outdate minor

Mark the data on a lower-level device as outdated. This is used for fencing, and prevents the resource the device is part of from becoming primary in the future. See the --fencing disk option.

drbdsetup pause-sync resource peer_node_id volume

Stop resynchronizing between a local and a peer device by setting the local pause flag. The resync can only resume if the pause flags on both sides of a connection are cleared.

drbdsetup primary resource

Change the role of a node in a resource to primary. This allows the replicated devices in this resource to be mounted or opened for writing. Available options:--overwrite-data-of-peerThis option is an alias for the --force option.--forceForce the resource to become primary even if some devices are not guaranteed to have up-to-date data. This option is used to turn one of the nodes in a newly created cluster into the primary node, or when manually recovering from a disaster. Note that this can lead to split-brain scenarios. Also, when forcefully turning an inconsistent device into an up-to-date device, it is highly recommended to use any integrity checks available (such as a filesystem check) to make sure that the device can at least be used without crashing the system. Note that DRBD usually only allows one node in a cluster to be in primary role at any time; this allows DRBD to coordinate access to the devices in a resource across nodes. The --allow-two-primaries network option changes this; in that case, a mechanism outside of DRBD needs to coordinate device access.

drbdsetup resize minor

Reexamine the size of the lower-level devices of a replicated device on all nodes. This command is called after the lower-level devices on all nodes have been grown to adjust the size of the replicated device. Available options:--assume-peer-has-spaceResize the device even if some of the peer devices are not connected at the moment. DRBD will try to resize the peer devices when they next connect. It will refuse to connect to a peer device which is too small.--assume-cleanDo not resynchronize the added disk space; instead, assume that it is identical on all nodes. This option can be used when the disk space is uninitialized and differences do not matter, or when it is known to be identical on all nodes. See the drbdsetup verify command.--size valThis option can be used to online shrink the usable size of a drbd device. It's the users responsibility to make sure that a file system on the device is not truncated by that operation.--al-stripes val --al-stripes valThese options may be used to change the layout of the activity log online. In case of internal meta data this may invovle shrinking the user visible size at the same time (unsing the --size) or increasing the avalable space on the backing devices. 

drbdsetup resume-io minor

Resume I/O on a replicated device. See the --fencing net option.

drbdsetup resume-sync resource peer_node_id volume

Allow resynchronization to resume by clearing the local sync pause flag.

drbdsetup role resource

Show the current role of a resource.

drbdsetup secondary resource

Change the role of a node in a resource to secondary. This command fails if the replicated device is in use.

drbdsetup show {resource | all}

Show the current configuration of a resource, or of all resources. Available options:--show-defaultsShow all configuration parameters, even the ones with default values. Normally, parameters with default values are not shown. 

drbdsetup show-gi resource peer_node_id volume

Show the data generation identifiers for a device on a particular connection. In addition, explain the output. The output otherwise is the same as in the drbdsetup get-gi command.

drbdsetup state

This is an alias for drbdsetup role. Deprecated.

drbdsetup status {resource | all}

Show the status of a resource, or of all resources. The output consists of one paragraph for each configured resource. Each paragraph contains one line for each resource, followed by one line for each device, and one line for each connection. The device and connection lines are indented. The connection lines are followed by one line for each peer device; these lines are indented against the connection line. Long lines are wrapped around at terminal width, and indented to indicate how the lines belongs together. Available options:--verboseInclude more information in the output even when it is likely redundant or irrelevant.--statisticsInclude data transfer statistics in the output.--color={always | auto | never}Colorize the output. With --color=auto, drbdsetup emits color codes only when standard output is connected to a terminal. For example, the non-verbose output for a resource with only one connection and only one volume could look like this: 

drbd0 role:Primary
  disk:UpToDate
  host2.example.com role:Secondary
    disk:UpToDate
	      

With the --verbose option, the same resource could be reported as: 

drbd0 node-id:1 role:Primary suspended:no
  volume:0 minor:1 disk:UpToDate blocked:no
  host2.example.com local:ipv4:192.168.123.4:7788
      peer:ipv4:192.168.123.2:7788 node-id:0 connection:WFReportParams
      role:Secondary congested:no
    volume:0 replication:Connected disk:UpToDate resync-suspended:no
	      

drbdsetup suspend-io minor

Suspend I/O on a replicated device. It is not usually necessary to use this command.

drbdsetup verify resource peer_node_id volume

Start online verification, change which part of the device will be verified, or stop online verification. The command requires the specified peer to be connected. Online verification compares each disk block on the local and peer node. Blocks which differ between the nodes are marked as out-of-sync, but they are not automatically brought back into sync. To bring them into sync, the resource must be disconnected and reconnected. Progress can be monitored in the output of drbdsetup status --statistics. Available options:--start positionDefine where online verification should start. This parameter is ignored if online verification is already in progress. If the start parameter is not specified, online verification will continue where it was interrupted (if the connection to the peer was lost while verifying), after the previous stop sector (if the previous online verification has finished), or at the beginning of the device (if the end of the device was reached, or online verify has not run before). The position on disk is specified in disk sectors (512 bytes) by default.--stop positionDefine where online verification should stop. If online verification is already in progress, the stop position of the active online verification process is changed. Use this to stop online verification. The position on disk is specified in disk sectors (512 bytes) by default. Also see the notes on data integrity in the drbd.conf(5) manual page.

drbdsetup wait-connect-volume resource peer_node_id volume,

drbdsetup wait-connect-connection resource peer_node_id,

drbdsetup wait-connect-resource resource,

drbdsetup wait-sync-volume resource peer_node_id volume,

drbdsetup wait-sync-connection resource peer_node_id,

drbdsetup wait-sync-resource resource

The wait-connect-* commands waits until a device on a peer is visible. The wait-sync-* commands waits until a device on a peer is up to date. Available options for both commands:--degr-wfc-timeout timeoutDefine how long to wait until all peers are connected in case the cluster consisted of a single node only when the system went down. This parameter is usually set to a value smaller than wfc-timeout. The assumption here is that peers which were unreachable before a reboot are less likely to be reachable after the reboot, so waiting is less likely to help. The timeout is specified in seconds. The default value is 0, which stands for an infinite timeout. Also see the wfc-timeout parameter.--outdated-wfc-timeout timeoutDefine how long to wait until all peers are connected if all peers were outdated when the system went down. This parameter is usually set to a value smaller than wfc-timeout. The assumption here is that an outdated peer cannot have become primary in the meantime, so we don't need to wait for it as long as for a node which was alive before. The timeout is specified in seconds. The default value is 0, which stands for an infinite timeout. Also see the wfc-timeout parameter.--wait-after-sbThis parameter causes DRBD to continue waiting in the init script even when a split-brain situation has been detected, and the nodes therefore refuse to connect to each other.--wfc-timeout timeoutDefine how long the init script waits until all peers are connected. This can be useful in combination with a cluster manager which cannot manage DRBD resources: when the cluster manager starts, the DRBD resources will already be up and running. With a more capable cluster manager such as Pacemaker, it makes more sense to let the cluster manager control DRBD resources. The timeout is specified in seconds. The default value is 0, which stands for an infinite timeout. Also see the degr-wfc-timeout parameter. 

drbdsetup forget-peer resource peer_node_id

The forget-peer command removes all traces of a peer node from the meta-data. It frees a bitmap slot in the meta-data and make it avalable for futher bitmap slot allocation in case a so-far never seen node connects. The connection must be taken down before this command may be used. In case the peer re-connects at a later point a bit-map based resync will be turned into a full-sync.

bsrmeta

SYNOPSIS

drbdmeta [--force] [--ignore-sanity-checks] { device} {v06 minor | v07  meta_dev index | v08 meta_dev index | v09  meta_dev index} { command} [cmd args...]

DESCRIPTION

The drbdmeta utility is used for creating, displaying, and modifying DRBD's on-disk metadata. Users usually interact with the drbdadm utility, which provides a more high-level interface to DRBD than drbdmeta. (See drbdadm's --dry-run option to see how drbdadm uses drbdmeta.)This utility can only be used on devices which are not currently in use by the kernel.The first argument ( device) specifies the drbd device associated with a volume, or “-” if no device is associated with that volume. If the drbd device is specified, the drbdmeta utility makes sure that the drbd device does not currently have a volume attached to prevent meta-data of an active volume from being destroyed.The second argument specifies the metadata version to use (v06, v07, v08, v09). In most metadata versions, the third argument ( meta_dev) specifies the device which contains the metadata; this argument can be the same as device. The fourth argument ( index) can be one of the keywords internal (for internal metadata), flex-internal (in v07 for variable-sized metadata; v07 otherwise defaults to fixed-size internal metadata), flex-external (for variable-sized external metadata), or a numeric matadata index (for fixed-size external metadata). See the meta-disk parameter in drbd.conf(5).

OPTIONS

• -force

Assume yes as the answer to all questions drbdmeta would ask.

• -ignore-sanity-checks

Normally, drbdmeta performs some sanity checks before writing to the metadata device: for example, if the device appears to contain a file system, it refuses to destroy the file system by writing into it. Use this option to ignore these checks.

COMMANDS

create-md [--peer-max-bio-size=val] (metadata versions v06, v07, and v08),

create-md {number-of-bitmap-slots} [--peer-max-bio-size=val] [ --al-stripes=val] [--al-stripe-size-kB= val] (metadata version v09)

Initialize the metadata. This is necessary before a DRBD resource can be attached. If drbdmeta finds an older version of DRBD metadata on the device, it asks if the format should be converted. When drbdadm calls drbdmeta's create-md command for a device, it sets the number-of-bitmap-slots argument to the number of peers in the resource. To reserve additional bitmap slots (which allows to add more peers in the future), call drbdmeta directly instead. When a device is used before being connected to its peers the first time, DRBD assumes that peers can only handle 4 KiB requests by default. The --peer-max-bio-size option allows to set more optimistic values; use this if the versions of DRBD that this device will connect to are known. DRBD supports a maximum bio size of 32 KiB since version 8.3.8, of 128 KiB since version 8.3.9, and of 1 MiB since version 8.4.0. If you want to use more than 6433 activity log extents, or live on top of a spriped RAID, you may specify the number of stripes ( --al-stripes, default 1), and the stripe size ( --al-stripe-size-kB, default 32). To just use a larger linear on-disk ring-buffer, leave the number of stripes at 1, and increase the size only: drbdmeta 0 v08 /dev/vg23/lv42 internal create-md --al-stripe-size 1M To avoid a single "spindle" from becoming a bottleneck, increase the number of stripes, to achieve an interleaved layout of the on-disk activity-log transactions. What you give as "stripe-size" should be what is a.k.a. "chunk size" or "granularity" or "strip unit": the minimum skip to the next "spindle". drbdmeta 0 v08 /dev/vg23/lv42 internal create-md --al-stripes 7 --al-stripe-size 64

get-gi [--node-id=id]

Show the data generation identifiers for a device on a particular connection. DRBD version 9.0.0 and beyond support multiple peers; use the node-id option to define which peer's data generation identifiers to show.

show-gi [--node-id=id]

Similar to get-gi, but with explanatory information.

dump-md

Dump the metadata of a device in text form, including the bitmap and activity log.

outdate

Mark the data on a lower-level device as outdated. See drbdsetup(8) for details.

dstate

Show the current disk state of a lower-level device.

check-resize

Examine the device size of a lower-level device and its last known device size (saved in /var/lib/drbd/drbd-minor-minor.lkbd by drbdsetup check-resize). For internal metadata, if the size of the lower-level device has changed and the metadata can be found at the previous position, move the metadata to the new position at the end of the block device.

apply-al

Apply the activity log of the specified device. This is necessary before the device can be attached by the kernel again.

EXPERT COMMANDS

The drbdmeta utility can be used to fine tune metdata. Please note that this can lead to destroyed metadata or even silent data corruption; use with great care only.

set-gi gi [--node-id=id] 

Set the generation identifiers. The gi argument is a generation counter for the v06 and v07 formats, and a set of UUIDs for v08 and beyond. Accepts the same syntax as in the get-gi output. DRBD version 9.0.0 and beyond support multiple peers; use the --node-id option to define which peer's data generation identifiers to set.

restore-md dump_file

Replace the metadata on the device with the contents of dump_file. The dump file format is defined by the output of the dump-md command.