Yes, I don't really follow that.<br>the stuff about "shrinking the partition".<br>I resized the partition, but that just makes it worse.<br><br>Definitely missing something there.<br><br>Which probably explains why using the other meta-disk type works.
<br><br>Dan.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lars Ellenberg</b> <<a href="mailto:Lars.Ellenberg@linbit.com">Lars.Ellenberg@linbit.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
/ 2007-02-08 18:17:20 -0500<br>\ Dan Gahlinger:<br>> Lars, could be.<br>><br>> I meant "no" in that one point.<br>><br>> I was able to "fix" the problem. By changing the metadisk to a device
<br>> instead of internal.<br>> mkdir does not show the same problem.<br>><br>> btw mystery piece, when I use Reiser or XFS, I can't get drbd to work.<br>> always get an error.<br>> I'll scan through the logs and see what I can find, the config is pretty
<br>> basic.<br>><br>> Take the drbd.conf from the same (share/packages...etc) and make only minor<br>> changes, thus:<br>><br>> on amd {<br>> device /dev/drbd0;<br>> disk /dev/sda3;
<br>> address <a href="http://192.168.22.11:7788">192.168.22.11:7788</a>;<br>> meta-disk internal;<br>> }<br>><br>> I entered a "fake" second system (whether I do it with the systems connected
<br>> or not made no difference so I'm just trying to simply it), as I'm trying to<br>> only make it work on one system for now.<br>> then I used:<br>> /etc/init.d/drbd start<br>> drdbsetup /dev/drbd0 primary --do-what-I-say
<br>> mount /dev/drbd0 /test<br>> cd /test<br>> tar -xvf /test.tar<br><br>so. you use internal drbd metadata,<br>but you created the file system on the lower level device.<br><br>ho hum. no further comment.<br>I guess you get to it sooner or later :->
<br><br>I give you one further hint:<br>in the kernel log, just before ext3 will remount readonly,<br>it will say "access beyond end of device".<br><br>> >never heard of what you describe,<br>> >unless it was user error -- or bad hardware.
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