Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Oops, sorry for the horrendously long subject line I pasted by accident... On Saturday 04 March 2006 13:07, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > # /etc/init.d/drbd start > * Starting DRBD ... > ioctl(,SET_DISK_CONFIG,) failed: Invalid argument > Meta device too small. > Command '/sbin/drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 disk /dev/hda3 internal -1' terminated > with exit code 20 > > Well, a glance at the man page tells me that meta-disk needs to be 128mb, > but I partitioned these boxes intentionally to have a 100mb drbd partition > to use just for config files and the like (mounted at /etc/cluster) that > should be used for config files that need to be consistant between all > machines in the cluster. > > I'd really rather not pull out all 8 machines I set up this way and > repartition them again, and as most of these only have 10GB disks, I'd > rather not allocate any more space to a partition which will probably never > hold more than 1MB anyways. > > Is there a way I can reduce the size of the meta disk in drbd.conf? Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | cshobe at seattleserver.com | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com