[DRBD-user] LVM2 over DRBD strange behavior

Matthias Weigel matthias.weigel at maweos.de
Thu Feb 16 20:05:02 CET 2006

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Hello,

I tried to setup LVM2 over DRBD over MD-Raid1.

The tests were done in Vmware virtual machines, WBEL4, kernel 2.6.9-22.0.1.


# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1         130     1044193+  fd  Linux raid 
autodetect


# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md7 : active raid1 sdc1[0]
       1044096 blocks [1/1] [U]


# cat /proc/drbd
version: 0.7.14 (api:77/proto:74)
SVN Revision: 1989 build by root at fth1.maweos.de, 2005-12-18 17:02:43
  0: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ld:Consistent
     ns:4 nr:4 dw:8 dr:261 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
  1: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ld:Consistent
     ns:913064 nr:0 dw:14732 dr:913840 al:8 bm:56 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0

# pvdisplay

# pvcreate /dev/drbd1
   Physical volume "/dev/drbd1" successfully created

# pvdisplay
   --- NEW Physical volume ---
   PV Name               /dev/drbd1
   VG Name
   PV Size               891.44 MB
   Allocatable           NO
   PE Size (KByte)       0
   Total PE              0
   Free PE               0
   Allocated PE          0
   PV UUID               0biBqF-Wpbl-fkDf-Y2KO-sejW-zERV-PNngxq

# vgcreate fth /dev/drbd1
   Volume group "fth" successfully created

# vgdisplay

# vgdisplay fth
   Volume group "fth" doesn't exist

# lvcreate -L512M -nfailover fth
   Volume group "fth" doesn't exist

Why does vgcreate report success, but the VG is NOT here?

This seems to be a DRBD problem. Using /dev/md7 instead of /dev/drbd1 works.

Any Idea?


Best Regards

Matthias Weigel



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