Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 5 Sep 2006, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > maybe it is just a misleading error message from klogd, when it does > not find the symbols... looks like >> Is there another way than 'dd' to destroy the metadata of a previously >> used DRBD device? >> >> Is there a way to dump the metadata information like 'agreed size'? > > there are "read_gc.pl" and "write_gc.pl" > in the testing/ directory of the drbd tarball. > gc == generation counters, > but it also displays / can write the "agreed-size") OK > drbd 8 has a drbdmeta subcommand, which is much more powerfull, > and does support the older meta data formats, too. If it supports the older meta data, we must put it in the next release of drbd 0.7 too. It might be useful in cases like mine. What do you think? > well. did you specify the bs=1M ? I need some sleep :) Sorry about that, seek does seek, indeed. I'm stupid. > otherwise, you'd just seeked into the device a couple of K, > then had to zero out the other 479.x GB This is what happened. -- Cyril Bouthors -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20060905/1040efd6/attachment.pgp>