[DRBD-user] 'drbdmeta 1 v08 /dev/sdb internal create-md' terminated with exit code 40

Robert Fantini robertfantini at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 10:39:45 CEST 2015

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


if you are using lvm, have you configured /etc/lvm/lvm.conf ?    not long
ago we had diskless issues due to a misconfigured lvm.conf .

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:49 AM, AJ NOURI <ajn.bin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I am confused between the official docs on
> http://drbd.linbit.com/docs/about/  and some drbd tutorials on ubuntu
> wiki concerning the step  "Preparing your lower-level storage".
>
> Should we partition the storage and format it? Looks like we shouldn't
> format it, to avoid "create-md exit code 40, drbd will take care of that.
> Then should we mount it on both devices?
>
> I am suspecting most errors at this stage of preparing the storage.
>
> On node2 (primary) everything works fine (no error messages):
>
>> sudo drbdadm create-md r0
>> sudo service drbd start
>> sudo drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary all
>> sudo drbdadm up r0
>
>
> and detects itself as the primary node:
>
> ajn at node2:~$
>> * cat /proc/drbd*version: 8.4.3 (api:1/proto:86-101)
>> srcversion: F97798065516C94BE0F27DC
>>  1: cs:Connected ro:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/Diskless C r-----
>>     ns:0 nr:0 dw:33504 dr:1637 al:9 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:f
>> oos:1048508
>> ajn at node2:~$
>
>
>
> But on node2, I am stuck with "
> *sudo drbdadm create-md r0*
> *"*
>
> ajn at node1:~$ cat /proc/drbd
>> version: 8.4.3 (api:1/proto:86-101)
>> srcversion: F97798065516C94BE0F27DC
>>  1: cs:Connected ro:Secondary/Primary ds:Diskless/UpToDate C r-----
>>     ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:f oos:0
>> ajn at node1:~$
>
>
> Though successfully detects itself as secondary:
>
>
>> *sudo drbdadm create-md r0*[sudo] password for ajn:
>> Writing meta data...
>> md_offset 1073737728
>> al_offset 1073704960
>> bm_offset 1073672192
>> Found ext3 filesystem
>>      1048576 kB data area apparently used
>>      1048508 kB left usable by current configuration
>> Device size would be truncated, which
>> would corrupt data and result in
>> 'access beyond end of device' errors.
>> You need to either
>>    * use external meta data (recommended)
>>    * shrink that filesystem first
>>    * zero out the device (destroy the filesystem)
>> Operation refused.
>> Command 'drbdmeta 1 v08 /dev/sdb internal create-md' terminated with exit
>> code 40
>
>
>
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