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

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Oct 21 21:42:44 CEST 2008

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.


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