[DRBD-user] drbdsetup fails to find metadata...

James Vanns james.vanns at framestore-cfc.com
Fri Nov 24 12:17:10 CET 2006

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Hmm, when using 0.8pre6 drbdsetup (when reading drbd.conf) fails to
initiate my resources. Even after using drbdmeta to create the metadata:

$ drbdmeta /dev/drbd0 v08 /dev/sda5 0 create-md
$ drbdmeta /dev/drbd1 v08 /dev/sda5 1 create-md

[root at jimmy ~]# /etc/init.d/drbd start
Starting DRBD resources:    [ d0 Failure: (119) No valid meta-data
signature found.)Use 'drbdadm create-md res' to initialize meta-data
area

cmd /sbin/drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 disk /dev/sda6 /dev/sda5 0 --set-defaults
--create-device --on-io-error=detach  failed!

What gives? I really want to use an external device and not an internal
metadata...

drbdadm of course also fails (when using create-md) because all it does
is call drbdmeta anyway (right?).

Jim

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James Vanns
Systems Programmer
Framestore CFC Ltd.





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