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Hi all,
I had no response, so I try again !
No one knows why I can only use DRBD on a full (unpartionned) disk ? It
doesn't work as soon as I create a partition on it (locked by the kernel ?).
Please help me with this problem !
Thanks.
Frederic Larive.
drbd.20.fredo at spamgourmet.com a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on it for few days now and I can't find the solution,
> please help !
>
> I have a dedicated disk (hda) for DRBD (0.7.14) wich is empty for now.
> If I use DRBD with /dev/hda all is OK (even after rebooting).
> If I create a partition (hda1) type ext3 or LVM or "non-DATA FS"
> (didn't try anything else) and use drbd just after, all is OK
>
> BUT
>
> after a reboot DRBD says that the "lower device is already mounted".
> So something is locking hda when I boot with a partition on it, but
> what ?
>
> I tried to exclude hda* in evms.conf (sections : activate,
> legacy_devices, sysfs_devices), put a filter in lvm.conf
> ("r|/dev/hda.*|") and set types to "[ "drbd", 16 ]", but nothing works !
>
> Please help !
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> PS : DRBD not excluded in evms and using /dev/evms/hda1 was working
> fine, but no way to unmount the evms segment, so the /dev/evms/hda1
> was locked (trying to switch from primary to secondary result in
> "device in use")
>
>
> My conf :
> ---------
> DRBD 0.7.14
> Kernel 2.6.5-7.283-default
>
> SLES 9.3, Novell eDir, Novell NSS, LVM, EVMS
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 26 208813+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 27 1101 8634937+ 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/hda1 1 775 390568+ 8e Linux LVM
>
>
> /dev/evms/POOL1 200.0 MB NSSFS /opt/novell/ns
> /dev/evms/lvm/system/swap 800.0 MB SWAPFS swap
> /dev/evms/lvm/system/sys_lx 7.4 GB ReiserFS /
> /dev/evms/sda1 203.9 MB ReiserFS /boot
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