[DRBD-user] Low.dev. smaller than requested DRBD-dev. size.

[Lars Ellenberg]

/ 2006-06-01 15:12:18 +0200
\ Christian Gloor:
> Hi there,
> 
> I just installed two servers with the last version of DRBD and my master
> works fine, but when I start the service on the second node, I get the
> following message:
> Starting DRBD resources:    [ d0 ioctl(,SET_DISK_CONFIG,) failed: Invalid
> argument
> Low.dev. smaller than requested DRBD-dev. size.
> 
> cmd /sbin/drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 disk /dev/cciss/disc0/part11 internal -1
> --on-io-error=detach  failed!
> 
> After playing around with the drbdadm commands for a while, it can connect,
> but it never gets really clean.
> For example, on one node it says it's consistent, but the other node states
> it's not...
> 
> In fact, I have trouble understanding that "Low.dev. smaller than requested
> DRBD-dev. size." as I didn't find it anywhere in the docs or on the net...
> If it's a device size difference, shouldn't DRBD automatically adjust to the
> lower available size?

usually it means literally that the lower level device
(the "physical" disk), is too small.
how big is /dev/cciss/disc0/part11 ?


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