Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2007-01-04 10:57:44 -0400 \ Timothy Legge: > > Hi > > Sorry, I mistakening sent this in HTML initially... > > We are using drbd 0.7.22. During testing on VMWare virtual machines > (ESX server) everything went fine. We had to backout during our > production implementation because we kept getting write errors on the > drbd partition. It seems that the partition became readonly in the > middle of writes (during a copy sever files would write ok and then the > partition became read only). > > The only thing I can figure is that the physical partitions are a > different size (I realized this after our back out). From the archives > I see that the partitions can shrink if the larger disk is in use and > then the smaller disk become active. Could this have caused the read > only issue? > > I will either change the physical partition size or set the size setting > in the disk section of the drbd.cond file to use less than the smaller > partition but I would like to verify that this (partition going read > only) is a possibility in this case. if the error message was "access beyond end of device", yes. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.