[DRBD-user] Errors when creating a LVM PV on DRBD

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Jun 20 23:36:33 CEST 2006

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/ 2006-06-21 09:31:10 +1200
\ Simon:
> Hi Luciano
> 
> >> This is so i can create lv partitions on server1 and have them
> >> automatically mirrored to server2 without changing setup (ie adding
> >> each lv to the drdb.conf file).
> >
> >You'll have to manually (or in a script) activate/deactivate the lvm
> >volumes.
> 
> Yes - this is the way we will be using it!
> 
> >> In my test environment, I have server1 and server2, both with
> >> /dev/sdb1 as the meta data drive and /dev/sdb2 as a Linux LV
> >> partition, then both servers have "disk = /dev/sdb2" set in the
> >> drbd.conf file. Then try to do the following with the following result
> >> (can anyone help me here please?):
> >>
> >> server1:/# pvcreate /dev/drbd0
> >> Physical volume "/dev/drbd0" successfully created
> >> server1:/# pvdisplay
> >> Found duplicate PV 947ghY5ndShGUC7jE8kUuhq9xEH6nvIB: using /dev/sdb2
> >
> >Change the filter directive in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, to exclude sdb.* or
> >just include the devices that you know will be used for lvm.
> 
> I have excluded /dev/sdb2 in the lvm.conf file thus: filter = [ "r/dev/sdb2" ]

verify that you have exactly one filter statement.
try filter = [ "a|/dev/drbd|", "r|.*|" ]
or filter = [ "r|/dev/sdb2|" ]
( the second and last character are the delimiters, unparsable filters
are likely to be ignored...)

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