Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
drbd is 8.3.2 and O.S. is F11 x86_64 with kernel 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64 I read in previous posts that an external meta device of about 4Mb is sufficient for about 100Gb od drbd device (http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2009-February/011404.html) In my case with 8.3.2 it seems that 8MB are not enough for 52Gb. I have: [root at virtfed ~]# fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0 Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 73.3 GB, 73372631040 bytes 255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 17562 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0005fbbd Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 51 204799+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 51 4163 16777216 8e Linux LVM /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 4163 17559 54658688 8e Linux LVM /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 17560 17562 12240 83 Linux and in drbd.conf on virtfed.domainname.com { device /dev/drbd0; disk /dev/cciss/c0d0p3; address 192.168.20.1:7788; meta-disk /dev/cciss/c0d0p4[0]; } but when I run: drbdadm up r0 I get this: 0: Failure: (112) Meta device too small. Command 'drbdsetup 0 disk /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 0 --set-defaults --create-device --on-io-error=detach' terminated with exit code 10 the same happens with the first part of the three commands embedded into the up above: drbdadm attach r0 0: Failure: (112) Meta device too small. Command 'drbdsetup 0 disk /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 0 --set-defaults --create-device --on-io-error=detach' terminated with exit code 10 Do I have to free up more space in 8.3.2 for meta data? Or I have not understood the meaning of meta-data and its indexes...? Gianluca