[DRBD-user] "local disk flush failed with status -5" on LVM

Philipp Reisner philipp.reisner at linbit.com
Wed May 14 12:39:48 CEST 2008

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Am Montag, 12. Mai 2008 17:33:19 schrieb Stephane Jourdan:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using DRBD over LVM and getting the same error message
> than http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2008-May/009287.html
>
> Upgrading the kernel to 2.6.25 is not an option for now (running
> Ubuntu/2.6.24)
> But even using the latest sources from git or v8.0.12 and using the 2
> new options to disable flushes, I get the "disk flush" failures .
>
> As per the last message posted on this topic, is this kernel bug fixed
> by the workaround you provided ? Or is it, but not in the case of a
> DRBD-over-LVM setup (and then, only upgrading the kernel would help) ?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>

Hi Stef,

Can you please post the output of drbdsetup /dev/drbdX show,
and and excerpt of the kernel logs with the disk flush failures ?

Thanks!
-phil
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