[DRBD-user] can't seem to create meta data

Milind Dumbare milind at linsyssoft.com
Mon Jul 31 08:19:41 CEST 2006

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On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 22:33 -0500, dp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to build drbd 8.0pre3 against the latest fedora core 5 kernel 
> (want to try primary/primary.  Things seem to build ok.  So I install 
> it, modprobe it, then try and do a drbdadm up all...
> 
> It tells me there's no meta data and to do drbdadm create-meta drbd0 (my 
> resource name).  It sits there for a bit with a nice little progress 
> meter and finally says it's ok.  Try the drbdadm up all again and it 
> tells me the same thing about no meta data.  When I try and do the 
> create again, it tells me it's already there do I want to overwrite it.

If you are creating metadata for the first time, you can overwrite
whatever underlying. Hope you don't have any data on that device.
> 
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong.  I've tried it with an meta-disk 
> internal and meta-disk /dev/sda1[0];  same results.
> 
> By the way I'm trying this on a USB drive. Does that matter?

AFAIK, it shouldn't matter.
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