[DRBD-user] drbd on lvm - resize pv (lvextend drbd)

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

> # pvs
>   /dev/drbd0: open failed: Falscher Medien-Typ
>   PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
>   /dev/drbd1 replicated lvm2 a-   120,00G 76,05G
>   /dev/md1   localvg    lvm2 a-     1,81T  1,67T

What's this talk of drbd0? I guess it can be ignored?

> But when setting it to 140G it tells me, " Pretending size is 293601280
> not 251657856 sectors."
> That means my PV is bigger than the underlying LVM.
> 
> But even when setting the PSize to 120G, drbd does not recognize this:
> 
> # pvresize -v -d --setphysicalvolumesize 120G /dev/drbd1

This sounds like a Bad Idea.

If drbd is unaware of the resize of its own backing device, enforcing
the resize of the contained data is probably bound to give you pain.

> # drbdadm -- resize drbd.drbd1
> 
> # cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.3.7 (api:88/proto:86-91)
> GIT-hash: ea9e28dbff98e331a62bcbcc63a6135808fe2917 build by
> phil at fat-tyre, 2010-01-13 17:17:27
>  0: cs:Unconfigured
>  1: cs:WFConnection ro:Primary/Unknown ds:UpToDate/DUnknown C r----
>     ns:0 nr:0 dw:312 dr:4876 al:2 bm:1 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:b
> oos:104854364