[DRBD-user] online shrinking errors / Centos5 drbd 8.3.1 from Testing

Rainer Traut tr.ml at gmx.de
Fri Jun 5 11:30:25 CEST 2009

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Lars Ellenberg schrieb:

> expected, even though not exactly intuitive.
> just because you resize (shrink) the storage area of DRBD,
> it does not re-locate its internal meta data.
> 
> internal meta data always lives in the last sectors of the device.
> so your lvresize truncated the device, and drbd tried to access beyond
> end of device.
> IO error.
> detach.
> 
>  :(
> 

Ok, but afaik I did what the user guide told me:
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-resizing.html#s-shrinking-online

And what should I have done to place the metadata at the right position 
after the filesystem?

Rainer





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