[DRBD-user] drbd >4TB devices

Werner Fischer werner.fischer at fh-hagenberg.at
Mon Nov 5 07:56:33 CET 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


according to http://www.linbit.com/fileadmin/linbit/DRBD-Factsheet.pdf
the "Maximal overall size of all devices" as well as the "Maximal size
of a single device ( 32bit / 64 bit )" is 4 TiB for DRBD 0.7 and DRBD
8.0.

You would need the enterprise version DRBD+ when you need devices >4TiB.

best regards,
Werner

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:40 -0400, Desjardins, Kristian wrote:
> I'm not sure if >4TB devices are supposed to work on x86_64 or not, but
> they don't seem to.  I have not been able to produce a stable drbd
> system with a 9TB block device.  I initially used the skip initial sync
> method which probably masked the problem, however, I tried to doing the
> full-sync and it fails (see below).  Can anyone clarify the status of
> >4TB devices on x86_64 please?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Oct 31 13:17:19 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: role( Secondary -> Primary )
> disk( Inconsistent -> UpToDate ) 
> Oct 31 13:17:19 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Forced to conisder local data as
> UpToDate!
> Oct 31 13:17:19 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Creating new current UUID
> Oct 31 13:17:19 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block
> now.
> Oct 31 13:17:27 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: conn( WFConnection ->
> WFReportParams ) 
> Oct 31 13:17:27 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Handshake successful: DRBD
> Network Protocol version 86
> Oct 31 13:17:27 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Peer authenticated using 20
> bytes of 'sha1' HMAC
> Oct 31 13:17:27 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Becoming sync source due to disk
> states.
> Oct 31 13:17:27 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block
> now.
> Oct 31 13:17:30 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: writing of bitmap took 2372
> jiffies
> Oct 31 13:17:30 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: 9075 GB marked out-of-sync by on
> disk bit-map.
> Oct 31 13:17:30 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: 9516192104 KB now marked
> out-of-sync by on disk bit-map.
> Oct 31 13:17:30 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block
> now.
> Oct 31 13:17:30 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: peer( Unknown -> Secondary )
> conn( WFReportParams -> WFBitMapS ) pdsk( DUnknown -> Inconsistent ) 
> Oct 31 13:17:32 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block
> now.
> Oct 31 13:17:35 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: conn( WFBitMapS -> SyncSource ) 
> Oct 31 13:17:35 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Began resync as SyncSource (will
> sync 9516192104 KB [2379048026 bits set]).
> Oct 31 13:17:35 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block
> now.
> Nov  1 20:30:23 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: logic bug?
> rs_left=18446744073709550316 > rs_total=2379048026 (rs_failed 0)
> Nov  1 20:30:23 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: logic bug?
> rs_left=18446744073709546844 > rs_total=2379048026 (rs_failed 0)
> Nov  1 20:30:23 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: logic bug?
> rs_left=18446744073709542372 > rs_total=2379048026 (rs_failed 0)
> Nov  1 20:30:23 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: logic bug?
> rs_left=18446744073709538572 > rs_total=2379048026 (rs_failed 0)
> Nov  1 20:30:23 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: logic bug?
> rs_left=18446744073709534396 > rs_total=2379048026 (rs_failed 0)
> Nov  1 20:30:24 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: logic bug?
> rs_left=18446744073709530300 > rs_total=2379048026 (rs_failed 0)
> Nov  1 20:30:24 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: logic bug?
> rs_left=18446744073709526364 > rs_total=2379048026 (rs_failed 0)
> Nov  1 20:30:24 ccrsftp1 kernel: drbd0: logic bug?
> rs_left=18446744073709525282 > rs_total=2379048026 (rs_failed 0)
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