Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 17.07.2009 16:51, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Gianluca > Cecchi<gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote: >> 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: > > Ok, perhaps it was my fault understanding man page. > It seems that when you use meta-disk you have to use index and in that > case you need at least 256MB???? as far as i recall you need *exactly* 256mb for your meta disk. if /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 is for example 1gb in size, then you can use /dev/cciss/c0d0p4[0] throu /dev/cciss/c0d0p4[3] to store 4 drbd metadisks cheers, raoul -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. r.bhatia at ipax.at Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. office at ipax.at 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________