[DRBD-user] required external meta-data size change?

Admin drbd-info at internode.com.au
Fri Jul 14 09:23:24 CEST 2006

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On Friday 14 July 2006 16:37, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> / 2006-07-14 14:37:18 +0930
>
> \ Admin:
> > Hi all
> >
> > On 2.6.17.3 amd64 (kernel and userland) + drbd 0.7.20 SVN (as of 14/July)
> > when I try to configure external metadata it fails with
> >
> > ioctl(,SET_DISK_CONFIG,) failed: Invalid argument
> > Meta device too small.
> >
> > until I increase the size of the partition containing the metadata to
> > 134MB (I thought 128MB was what was required?)
>
> is it possible that you confuse (1000*1000) and (1024*1024) ?
> 128 * (1024*1024) == 134217728

Looks like you are 100% correct

parted docs:
megabyte (1000000 bytes)

I just assumed that a partitioning tool would be more accurate (I couldn't 
check using fdisk or cfdisk because they don't understand gpt labels)

Thanks for the help

Admin



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