[DRBD-user] DRBD attempts to access beyond end of device

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Feb 27 13:54:25 CET 2008

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:14:36PM -0500, Nate Seif wrote:
> Hello all:
> I intermittently experience the errors below while running DRBD and would 
> like to correct whatever condition is causing DRBD to randomly lose pages. 
> My hard disks and partitions are identical and have never given me 
> problems previously. I don't see any other disk I/O errors in my logs. And 
> it appears that occassionally (not always) these errors are preceded by a 
> resync of the two disks.
> 
> Why would DRBD "attempt to access beyond end of device"?
> 
> I am running DRBD 8.06 on Gentoo Linux as I could not get my latest 
> Gentoo kernel to load the DRBD module where version > 8.06. Metadata is 
> "internal" and I'm running Protocol C. I'd be happy to post my drbd.conf 
> page if necessary.
> 
> 
> Feb 26 08:21:46 <hostname> attempt to access beyond end of device
> Feb 26 08:21:46 <hostname> drbd0: rw=1, want=211992584, limit=211986944
> Feb 26 08:21:46 <hostname> Buffer I/O error on device drbd0, logical block 
> 26499072
> Feb 26 08:21:46 <hostname> lost page write due to I/O error on drbd0
> Feb 26 08:21:46 <hostname> attempt to access beyond end of device
> Feb 26 08:21:46 <hostname> drbd0: rw=1, want=211992592, limit=211986944
> Feb 26 08:21:46 <hostname> Buffer I/O error on device drbd0, logical block 
> 26499073
> Feb 26 08:21:46 <hostname> lost page write due to I/O error on drbd0
> 
> 
> Any ideas, tips, help, etc. is much appreciated. Thank you -

let me guess:
you did mkfs /dev/sda1, not mkfs /dev/drbd0?
well, you screwed up.

lots of threads in the list archive about this.

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