Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2007-01-20 21:40:15 +0100 \ Magnus Appelquist: > Hello list, > > I've seen other people with the same problem as me, but since I couldn't > find any answer I'll try again. > > When I do /etc/init.d/drbd start, I get this error: > > Failure: (114) Lower device is already mounted. > Command '/sbin/drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 disk /dev/loop5 /dev/loop5 internal > --set-defaults --create-device --on-io-error=detach' terminated with > exit code 10 do not use loop devices for drbd, neither storage nor meta data. it might appear to work at first. but I expect it to deadlock sooner or later. > And from that moment the device is locked (until reboot), so if I for > example do (just a test): > # mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop5 > mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) > /dev/loop5 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a > filesystem here! > > The device is busy even if I unload the drbd module. > I've also tried on a lvm2 device with _exactly_ the same result... > > So, the problem is first of all that I can't get drbd to work and > secondly it occupies my device. > > Help, anyone? > > My system (yes, I run xen and lvm2): > # uname -a > Linux cambozola 2.6.16.28-xen #11 SMP Wed Nov 8 09:56:34 CET 2006 x86_64 > AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 GNU/Linux > > # cat /proc/drbd > version: 8.0pre6 (api:85/proto:85) > SVN Revision: 2585 build by root at cambozola, 2007-01-20 16:28:50 once it is in that state, it won't recover. during development of drbd8, we introduced some imbalance in certain error handling code. upgrade to 8rc2. and _reboot_. that should fix it. sorry. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.