Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:47:28PM +0100, Bas van Schaik wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using drbd 8.0.4 from a Debian Package from Lenny (testing), and I
we are at 8.0.8, resp. 8.2.2 (to be released within the next week).
> think drbd has some problems handling long names for backend devices.
> I'm using a LVM volume "/dev/storage/drbd-backups-from-jeroen" for my
> resource "backups-jeroen" and drbd seems to get confused by the long
> device name:
>
> > $ drbdadm up backups-jeroen
> > Failure: (104) Can not open backing device.
> > Command 'drbdsetup /dev/drbd1 disk
> > /dev/storage/drbd-backups-from-jeroen
> > /dev/storage/drbd-backups-from-jeroen internal --set-defaults
> > --create-device --on-io-error=detach' terminated with exit code 10
>
> And:
> > $ ls -la /dev/storage/drbd-backups-from-jeroen
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 2008-01-06 14:31
> > /dev/storage/drbd-backups-from-jeroen ->
> > /dev/mapper/storage-drbd--backups--from--jeroen
>
> Now check the output of dmesg:
> > $ dmesg
> > drbd: initialised. Version: 8.0.4 (api:86/proto:86)
> > drbd: SVN Revision: 2947 build by root at guust, 2008-01-06 14:20:15
> > drbd: registered as block device major 147
> > drbd: minor_table @ 0xc23c60c0
> > drbd1:
> > open("/dev/storage/drbd-backups-from-jeroe/dev/storage/drbd-backups-from-jeroe����")
> > failed with -2
>
> The last line is the one worrying me: it seems like drbd has some
> difficulties with managing it's memory? Would there exist a worst case
> scenario where one would end up using a wrong device as backend? I'd
> like to hear your thoughts!
http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.0.git;a=blob;f=ChangeLog;hb=HEAD
8.0.5...
"Changed the maximal length of device names..."
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