[DRBD-user] BLKFLSBUF: Inappropriate ioctl for device (when executing blockdev --flushbufs)

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Sep 27 17:19:08 CEST 2006

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/ 2006-09-27 16:56:33 +0200
\ Werner Fischer:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to execute the the commands contained in /etc/ha.d/haresources
> manually one by one, an discovered that executing
> "/etc/ha.d/resource.d/Filesystem /dev/drbd0 /vz ext3 start" for example
> gives the following output: "BLKFLSBUF: Inappropriate ioctl for device"
> 
> The Filesystem script comes with Heartbeat, the command within the
> Filesystem script which actually leads to this output is
> "/sbin/blockdev --flushbufs /dev/drbd0"
> 
> Do I get this output because DRBD itself has no buffers like a normal
> hard disk has?
> 
> Would it make sense that DRBD itself forwards such a command to flush
> the buffers to DRBD's lower devices (on node1 and node2) - so that the
> lower devices flushes the buffer?

I just did 
# blockdev --flushbufs /dev/drbd0
# echo $?
0

on our file server here.
so it _does_ "just work".

what is your kernel?
which drbd version?

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