Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:32:19AM -0700, Jeffrey Froman wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2008 02:05:44 am Lars Ellenberg wrote: > > most likely your "overrun problems" where due to the fact that you > > had a pre-existing file system on that disk, and truncated it by > > overwriting the last part with drbd meta data. > > reducing the drbd size won't even help. > > We did have a pre-existing filesystem, but meta data is stored on > different disks (drbd.conf is included in the OP). if you have "external meta data", then all is good anyways. > > as long as you mkfs /dev/drbd (after both nodes have seen each > > other for the first time), all is well. > > Hm, we have never run mkfs after adding drbd. We frankly don't have > the space at the moment to store the data elsewhere while re-creating > the filesystem. > > Is it still safe in such a case to remove the size parameter? yes. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. __ please don't Cc me, but send to list -- I'm subscribed