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

James Vanns james.vanns at framestore-cfc.com
Fri Nov 24 14:46:48 CET 2006

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Damn. Well, if it helps this partition is an exact multiple of 128M -
1024M to be precise. Point me in the right direction in the code and
I'll take a look if I get time...

Jim

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 14:08 +0100, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> / 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.
> 
> 
-- 
James Vanns
Systems Programmer
Framestore CFC Ltd.





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