Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Milind Dumbare wrote: > 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> drbd-user mailing list >> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com >> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >> >> i guess, i didn't explain this properly... what seems to be happening is that drbdadm and drbsetup don't seem to recognize that metadata has been created on the drive. doesn't matter how many times i go through the cycle, the metadata is never recognized