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 06, 2009 at 07:14:03PM -0700, clipclop wrote: > > Running DRBD 8.3.3 on Fedora 11. kernel version? x86_64? who compiled DRBD? when compiling DRBD, it "remembers" against which kernel .config it has been compiled, does that match exactly with the .config of the running kernel? > Had a 5.4 TB partition operating under DRBD over several months without > problem. Just last week the server locked up and the message log started > filling up with errors relating to the disk, mostly along the lines of : > EXT4-fs: bad geometry: block count 1451919360 exceeds size of device > (1073446912 blocks) > > After rebooting the DRBD partition refused to mount (even after specifying > the type), with the message > mount : type erroné de syst .de fichiers, option erronée, super bloc > erroné sur /dev/drbd0, codepage ou aide manquante ou autre erreur > > The partition is EXT4 and has external metadata. This is the kind of error > I would expect if I had used internal metadata and resized the partition, > however, neither of these is the case. > > In desperation to access the data I bypassed DRBD and mounted the logical > partition directly, which worked fine. > > Wanting to reactivate DRBD, I demounted the logical partition, started DRBD, > recreated meta-data and forced the node into primary. Same error message > when trying to mount the partition /dev/drbd0. > > In summary : can mount the logical partition fine, but not when using the > DRBD layer. > > Has anyone seen anything like this ? Is there something obvious I'm > forgetting? Nope. Any messages from DRBD or kernel in dmesg (or /var/log/messages), while you try to mount it? > In case it's relevant, the server disks are all running off a physical RAID > card, and there's another regular occuring error message, but may not be > related, as it occurs even when the DRBD service is stopped : > 3w-9xxx: scsi4: ERROR: (0x03:0x0101): Invalid command opcode:opcode=0x4D. > > Thanks in advance, > Simon -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT HA-Solutions GmbH : DRBD®/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria.