[DRBD-user] Estimating meta data size

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Dec 2 10:27:32 CET 2008

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


On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:58:18AM +0100, Stefan Seifert wrote:
> On Tuesday, 02. December 2008, Florian Haas wrote:
> 
> > Presume you're packing metadata for several resources into one metadata
> > device using "meta-disk <device>[<index>]". When you do that, each
> > metadata area is fixed at 128M. With eight resources, you'll fill up
> > your 1G metadata device.
> 
> And please note that 8.27 is more strict on this than 8.2.6! This bit me, 
> because my meta data device for two drbd devices was a few MB short and after 
> what was supposed to be a small upgrade, drbd wouldn't start anymore.

interessting. you should have complained ;)
maybe we can relax that a bit again...

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