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

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Nov 24 14:08:57 CET 2006

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/ 2006-11-24 11:17:10 +0000
\ James Vanns:
> 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...

indexed external meta data on a partition that is not exactly 128 MB
is currently broken. I'll fix it as soon as possible.


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