[DRBD-user] Error when trying to mount drbd partition : 'Bad geometry: block count xxx exceeds size of device'

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Oct 7 10:33:18 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.


On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:22:12AM +0200, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> 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.

Ah.
What size is your meta data area?
What size is the resulting DRBD?
-> cat /proc/partitions,
compare drbd0 and your lower level device.

You'd need ~196 MiB meta data (bitmap area) for ~6 TB storage.

> > 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
> 
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