[DRBD-user] Resizing a DRBD device with LVM and internal metadata breaks the DRBD device!

Sam Howard sam.howard at officepcsupport.com
Tue Nov 11 08:14:37 CET 2008

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Hi.
I have my DRBD device setup with:

resource dirvish01-data {
  device        /dev/drbd11;
  disk          /dev/datavg/dirvish01-data;
  flexible-meta-disk internal;

on [insert "on" clauses"]
}

I added 20GB to the LVM LV with:

  lvextend -L +20G /dev/datavg/dirvish01-data

on both hosts.  On the primary host:

  drbdadm adjust dirvish01-data

Then, I mounted /dev/drbd11 on /mnt and did:

  xfs_growfs /mnt

First problem:  The xfs_growfs only grew the filesystem by about 10GB, not
the full 20GB.

Second problem:  Upon doing a "drbdadm down dirvish01-data ; drbdadm up
dirvish01-data", I get:

/dev/drbd11: Failure: (119) No valid meta-data signature found.

        ==> Use 'drbdadm create-md res' to initialize meta-data area. <==

Command 'drbdsetup /dev/drbd11 disk /dev/datavg/dirvish01-data
/dev/datavg/dirvish01-data internal --set-defaults --create-device
--on-io-error=detach' terminated with exit code 10

Obviously, this is bad ... Now I can't start my device and get access to my
data.

This is on Ubuntu 8.04LTS (Hardy) with kernel 2.6.18.8-xen-x64-20080924
(custom build, but growing the DRBD devices has worked previously).  DRBD
version version: 8.2.6 (api:88/proto:86-88) GIT-hash:
3e69822d3bb4920a8c1bfdf7d647169eba7d2eb4 build by root at xen-80-31-00,
2008-09-25 01:10:05.

How can I convince DRBD to get my data back?  I was under the impression
that the "flexible-meta-disk internal" would handle the "drbdadm adjust"
properly.  Doing the suggested "drbdadm create-md dirvish01-data" indicates
I will loose my data, so I have not run that command as of yet.

Thanks,
Sam
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