Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2006-09-27 16:56:33 +0200 \ Werner Fischer: > Hi, > > I tried to execute the the commands contained in /etc/ha.d/haresources > manually one by one, an discovered that executing > "/etc/ha.d/resource.d/Filesystem /dev/drbd0 /vz ext3 start" for example > gives the following output: "BLKFLSBUF: Inappropriate ioctl for device" > > The Filesystem script comes with Heartbeat, the command within the > Filesystem script which actually leads to this output is > "/sbin/blockdev --flushbufs /dev/drbd0" > > Do I get this output because DRBD itself has no buffers like a normal > hard disk has? > > Would it make sense that DRBD itself forwards such a command to flush > the buffers to DRBD's lower devices (on node1 and node2) - so that the > lower devices flushes the buffer? I just did # blockdev --flushbufs /dev/drbd0 # echo $? 0 on our file server here. so it _does_ "just work". what is your kernel? which drbd version? -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schoenbrunner Str. 244, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.