[DRBD-user] Re: "out of range" error

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Oct 17 12:54:08 CEST 2008

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:04:19PM -0700, Jeffrey Froman wrote:
> 
> I have a drbd resource that appears to be working correctly. However, 
> when I run "drbdadm -d adjust <resource>" (without changing the 
> working configuration), I get:
> 
>     286744120s: out of range
> 
> This number is the configured size of the drbd disk (see drbd.conf 
> below), but:
> 
> [root ~]# blockdev --getsize /dev/sdc1
> 286744122
> 
> So why am I getting an "out of range" error for an otherwise seeminly 
> working resource?
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeffrey

you normally should not use that config parameter.
since we almost never do, we did not notice yet that there is a bug in
the 's' unit conversion.

simple fix: just DO NOT explicitly set a size.
it is only useful in very special cases if at all.

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