Propagate the --force flag in the legacy drbdadm to drbdsetup. Otherwise "drbdadm primary --force" won't work as expected (the kernel will say "State change failed: Need access to UpToDate data"). diff -ru -x '*~' drbd-8.4.0-orig/user/legacy/drbdadm_main.c drbd-8.4.0/user/legacy/drbdadm_main.c --- drbd-8.4.0-orig/user/legacy/drbdadm_main.c 2011-07-07 06:55:39.000000000 -0400 +++ drbd-8.4.0/user/legacy/drbdadm_main.c 2011-11-02 14:51:04.000000000 -0400 @@ -1547,6 +1547,7 @@ for (i = 0; i < soi; i++) { argv[NA(argc)] = setup_opts[i]; } + if (force) argv[NA(argc)] = "--force"; argv[NA(argc)] = 0; setenv("DRBD_RESOURCE", res->name, 1);