[DRBD-user] DRBD LVM device-mapper error

Felix Frank ff at mpexnet.de
Tue Jan 10 13:13:46 CET 2012

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Hi,

On 01/10/2012 12:40 PM, Yuan Luo wrote:
> During established DRBD+Pacemaker, I met the problem with the following
> error in node2. I've googled a lot information, but nothing helped.
> In another production environment, everything works. DRBD+Pacemaker,
> failover OK.

Is node2 Primary when you try doing this? It should be, otherwise you're
bound to fail.

> Could you please help me out?
>  
> app-ebs02:/dev/mapper # lvcreate -n ipwvol -L 50G ipwdg
>   WARNING: Locking disabled. Be careful! This could corrupt your metadata.
>   device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
>   Aborting. Failed to activate new LV to wipe the start of it.

Need more information. What's the output of pvs and lvs?

> Is that because the hard-disk is broken? Thank you in advance.

I disbelieve so.

Cheers,
Felix



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