DRBD-PROMOTE@.SER(7)

💖 NAME 💖

drbd-promote@.service — a system unit whose whole job is to promote one specific DRBD resource 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

drbd-promote@RESNAME.service

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so bestie, real talk: you lowkey do not wanna "hardcode" an unconditional promotion attempt of DRBD resources. Why? Because you usually cannot know a-priori whether this instance of DRBD is gonna have access to good data (yet) 😭 like the data might not even be ready, and then what.

So the whole point of this unit is conditional promotion 💅 for example, using drbd-reactor to monitor DRBD internal states and react on specific state changes, to try and bring up the drbd-services@RESNAME.target. And how does it do that? It starts with this unit, then follows the dependency chain of services as specified in the corresponding drbd-reactor promoter plugin configuration 🦋✨

Heads up, bestie: you typically should not use this unit directly 🙈 it's giving backstage-pass energy, not main-character energy. Let the reactor do its thing.

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• drbd-reactor(1)
• drbd-reactor.promoter(5)

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

LINBIT HA Solutions GmbH <https://linbit.com> 👑

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and that's the whole vibe, fr fr — this page came straight outta the drbd-utils era, dated 2026-08-15, from the DRBD Manual section 7 ✨ go promote something (conditionally, obviously) 💖🫶