Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tuesday, 02. December 2008, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > 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... Well it was clearly my fault. The docs say 128MB for each drbd device and I gave it about 249 for two (maybe fdisk rounded down when partitioning). What I wonder is, why the difference between internal and external meta data? If it only needs 5MB, why require 128? Regards, Stefan