[DRBD-user] problem with meta-disk on /dev/md1

Ralf Gross Ralf-Lists at ralfgross.de
Wed Dec 6 13:58:07 CET 2006

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Ralf Gross said:
> Ralf Gross said:
>> [meta-disk on raid device md1]
>> meta-disk /dev/md1 [0];
>> ...
>> meta-disk /dev/md1 [1];
>> ...
>> meta-disk /dev/md1 [2];
>>
>> But now drbd does not start at all - no error messages.
>>
>> # /etc/init.d/drbd start
>> Starting DRBD resources:    [ d0
>>[snip]
> Maybe I missing something in my config, but drbd was running fine with
> internal meta data. I just changed the meta-disk lines in the config file.
>
> Is it possible that it's just not working with an md device?

Please, could anyone point me in the right direction. Is it impossible to
use a md device for meta data? If this is the case shouldn't the start
script catch this? The script just hangs forever.

Ralf




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