Verifying a DRBD filesystem

A fairly-common maintenance concern regarding synchronized devices is verification. The question we should always ask ourselves in a high-availability scenario is: How confident are we that the data on both nodes match?

The drbdadm utility provides a parameter specifically for addressing this need. However, there are some caveats to consider when using it, which we will explain in this recipe.

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