Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2005-09-19 19:27:13 +0200
\ Lars Ellenberg:
> / 2005-09-19 16:06:40 +0100
> \ John Moylan:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to DRBD, but I am trying to set up up as a replacment for an Netapp NAS.
> >
> > I am having difficulties starting drbd. I am using 0.7.13 on Centos4 (2.6.9-11.ELsmp)
> >
> > I compiled am RPM using make rpm, installed it and tweeked the conf
> > file. But when I run "drdbadm up all" or "drbdadm adjust export" the
> > commands just exit with "ioctl(,GET_VERSION,) failed: Invalid
> > argument"
> >
> > Has anyone any ideas as to what could be causing this problem?
>
> 64bit kernel mode, 32bit user space and a misconfigured kernel source
> tree could show these symptoms.
ah, no. much easier than that...
> [root at prompt]# modprobe drbd; drbdadm up all; dmesg | tail; cat /proc/drbd
> | NOTE: we now have officially asigned device name and major number.
> | Please use /dev/drbd*; if neccessary create the device nodes first.
> | To do so: for i in `seq 0 15` ; do mknod -m 0660 /dev/drbd$i b 147 $i; done
> ioctl(,GET_VERSION,) failed: Invalid argument
> Command '/sbin/drbdsetup /dev/sdb2 disk /dev/drbd0 /dev/sdb1 0 --on-io-error=detach' terminated with exit code 20
^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
you mixed up the "device" and "disk", sorry.
so the drbd ioctl is done on the scsi device, which of course tells you
"what the are you talking about"
:)
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