[DRBD-user] perhaps a better error message?

Ron O'Hara rono at sentuny.com.au
Fri May 21 15:53:50 CEST 2004

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


Philipp Reisner wrote:

>On Friday 21 May 2004 15:43, Ron O'Hara wrote:
>  
>
>>Just playing with trying to add a 3rd drbd device into the config and I
>>get the message:
>>
>>   can not open device: No such device or address
>>
>>The question is of course... which device? - at the point where this
>>message is generated, either drbdadm or the  device driver knows which
>>device it was accessing... but I dont.
>>
>>It might have been /dev/nb2 or /dev/drbd2 or the /dev/base/cnr lvm2
>>device ... but perhaps not - since I have manually added all of them.
>>Now I'm a bit lost trying to determine which device node the error
>>message is referring to.  Ideas ? (assuming drbd allows more than 2
>>devices to be replicated to other systems)
>>
>>Ron
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Looks like the kernel driver has no more than two minors. 
>
>try to load the module with 
>
>modprobe drbd minor_count=3
>
>-philipp
>  
>

my bad .... that will be it.

Ron




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