[DRBD-user] drbd trunk won't make new volume

Philipp Reisner philipp.reisner at linbit.com
Mon May 9 10:37:55 CEST 2005

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Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 18:24 schrieb David Warren:
> I am running 2.6.11.7 with the most recent drbd-trunk code. When I load
> the driver and do drbdadm up all I get:
> ioctl(,SET_DISK_CONFIG,) failed: Invalid argument
> No valid meta-data signature found.
> Use 'drbdadm create-md res' to initialize meta-data area.
>
> Command './drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 disk /dev/sda1 internal -1
> --on-io-error=detach' terminated with exit code 20
>
> Following those instructions I get:
> drbdadm create-md ldmdata
> offset 1270857728, size 349
>
> Valid meta-data already in place, recreate new?
> [need to type 'yes' to confirm] yes
>
> Creating meta data...
>
> Then I run drbdadm up all and get a repeat of the original error.
> Now, I know that drbdmeta does write something as I wrote a small
> program to read the v08 md stuff:
> a_sect = 0
> uuid[0] = 0
> uuid[1] = 0
> uuid[2] = 0
> uuid[3] = 0
> flags = 0
> magic = 1795323011
> md_size = 8
> al_offset = 134217728
> al_nr_extents = 16842752
> bm_offset = 1207959552
> reserved =
>

"drbdadm dump-md res" will do something simmilar :)

But strange, after create-md the driver should be happy... 
Maybe I find some time to look into drbd-08 by the end of
the week again.

-phil
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