[DRBD-user] Estimating meta data size

Stefan Seifert nine at detonation.org
Tue Dec 2 09:58:18 CET 2008

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


On Tuesday, 02. December 2008, Florian Haas wrote:

> Presume you're packing metadata for several resources into one metadata
> device using "meta-disk <device>[<index>]". When you do that, each
> metadata area is fixed at 128M. With eight resources, you'll fill up
> your 1G metadata device.

And please note that 8.27 is more strict on this than 8.2.6! This bit me, 
because my meta data device for two drbd devices was a few MB short and after 
what was supposed to be a small upgrade, drbd wouldn't start anymore.

Regards,
Stefan



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