<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">I have drbd9 in a 3 node mesh, all seems normal (albeit 3 hours on a 10G network to initial sync 3Tb) . All nodes are backed by by an LVM allocated on top of a hardware raid, makeing the /dev/drbd1 on each node. For debugging, auto-promote is disabled by config.<br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Each node has:<br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">/dev/vg_on_my_local_raid/local_for_drbd<br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">drbd uses above for its storage <br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">which serves as a pv for<br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">/dev/vg_reflected <br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">It seems that on the primary node that created /dev/vg_reflected (and test lv's inside it) has no problem to access<br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">vgchange /dev/vg_reflected -an <br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">primary node -> secondary <br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Different node:<br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">drbd -> primary<br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><div>vgchange /dev/vg_reflected -ay</div><div><br></div><div>results in IOCTL failures that wont mount.<br></div><div><br></div><div>kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:4: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed<br>kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>Upon several searches, it seems that this possibly occurs when LVM2 metadata is incorrect or corrupt.<br></div><div>Though Its not corrupt as going back to the primary-creating-node works fine. <br></div><div><br></div><div>So, I'm a bit confused where to look to solve the problem, it seems to me there is something that is node specific that should be blanked or not writing, I've tried crusted LVM. but that really doesnt do much except put vg control in ccs/cman, not of value for a single primary node configuration 1 of 3.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Any suggestions would be appreciated, have considered wiping the whole node and create araid /dev/sdx device to use as the backing device, but that looses the flexibility on resize online adding pv's to the backing device.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>