[DRBD-user] Reproduceable error - creating a single directory causes drbd to fail

Dan Gahlinger dgahling at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 16:41:50 CET 2007

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Yes, I don't really follow that.
the stuff about "shrinking the partition".
I resized the partition, but that just makes it worse.

Definitely missing something there.

Which probably explains why using the other meta-disk type works.

Dan.

On 2/8/07, Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote:
>
> / 2007-02-08 18:17:20 -0500
> \ Dan Gahlinger:
> > Lars, could be.
> >
> > I meant "no" in that one point.
> >
> > I was able to "fix" the problem. By changing the metadisk to a device
> > instead of internal.
> > mkdir does not show the same problem.
> >
> > btw mystery piece, when I use Reiser or XFS, I can't get drbd to work.
> > always get an error.
> > I'll scan through the logs and see what I can find, the config is pretty
> > basic.
> >
> > Take the drbd.conf from the same (share/packages...etc) and make only
> minor
> > changes, thus:
> >
> > on amd {
> >    device     /dev/drbd0;
> >    disk       /dev/sda3;
> >    address    192.168.22.11:7788;
> >    meta-disk  internal;
> > }
> >
> > I entered a "fake" second system (whether I do it with the systems
> connected
> > or not made no difference so I'm just trying to simply it), as I'm
> trying to
> > only make it work on one system for now.
> > then I used:
> > /etc/init.d/drbd start
> > drdbsetup /dev/drbd0 primary --do-what-I-say
> > mount /dev/drbd0 /test
> > cd /test
> > tar -xvf /test.tar
>
> so. you use internal drbd metadata,
> but you created the file system on the lower level device.
>
> ho hum.  no further comment.
> I guess you get to it sooner or later :->
>
> I give you one further hint:
> in the kernel log, just before ext3 will remount readonly,
> it will say "access beyond end of device".
>
> > >never heard of what you describe,
> > >unless it was user error -- or bad hardware.
>
> :-/
>
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