Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
>> After changing the meta-disk option to "flexible-meta-disk" , issues now >> resolved. >> >> As storage in the Terabytes becomes more common perhaps DRBD in the >> future >> could warn about meta-data size if a large partition is detected. >Unfortunately, that is not easily possible at meta data creation. >We _do_ warn, however, on _attach_. >You should find a message like >"truncating very big lower level device to currently > maximum possible <some large number> sectors" > >If not, please tell me, and I double check that warning. I didn't see the message you describe; following is the full log during DRBD startup for your reference : Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: drbd: initialized. Version: 8.3.3rc2 (api:88/proto:86-91) Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: drbd: GIT-hash: 04b2f175d7076ef2e0dd7d5ba6f6843357a041ed build by root at NOIR, 2009-09-29 09:41:48 Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: drbd: registered as block device major 147 Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: drbd: minor_table @ 0xffff88011b47d000 Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Starting worker thread (from cqueue [7392]) Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: disk( Diskless -> Attaching ) Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: No usable activity log found. Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Method to ensure write ordering: barrier Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Backing device's merge_bvec_fn() = ffffffff813a1616 Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: max_segment_size ( = BIO size ) = 4096 Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: drbd_bm_resize called with capacity == 8587575296 Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: resync bitmap: bits=1073446912 words=16772608 Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: size = 4095 GB (4293787648 KB) Sep 30 01:20:32 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Writing the whole bitmap, size changed Sep 30 01:20:33 localhost kernel: block drbd0: 4095 GB (1073446912 bits) marked out-of-sync by on disk bit-map. Sep 30 01:20:34 localhost kernel: block drbd0: recounting of set bits took additional 170 jiffies Sep 30 01:20:34 localhost kernel: block drbd0: 4095 GB (1073446912 bits) marked out-of-sync by on disk bit-map. Sep 30 01:20:34 localhost kernel: block drbd0: disk( Attaching -> Inconsistent ) Sep 30 01:20:34 localhost kernel: block drbd0: conn( StandAlone -> Unconnected ) Sep 30 01:20:34 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Starting receiver thread (from drbd0_worker [26212]) Sep 30 01:20:34 localhost kernel: block drbd0: receiver (re)started Sep 30 01:20:34 localhost kernel: block drbd0: conn( Unconnected -> WFConnection ) Sep 30 01:20:45 localhost kernel: block drbd0: conn( WFConnection -> Disconnecting ) Sep 30 01:20:45 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Discarding network configuration. Sep 30 01:20:45 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Connection closed Sep 30 01:20:45 localhost kernel: block drbd0: conn( Disconnecting -> StandAlone ) Sep 30 01:20:45 localhost kernel: block drbd0: receiver terminated Sep 30 01:20:45 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Terminating receiver thread Sep 30 01:21:25 localhost kernel: block drbd0: role( Secondary -> Primary ) disk( Inconsistent -> UpToDate ) Sep 30 01:21:25 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Forced to consider local data as UpToDate! Sep 30 01:21:25 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Creating new current UUID Sep 30 01:22:22 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs: bad geometry: block count 1451919360 exceeds size of device (1073446912 blocks) Sep 30 01:22:42 localhost kernel: block drbd0: role( Primary -> Secondary ) Sep 30 01:22:42 localhost kernel: block drbd0: disk( UpToDate -> Diskless ) Sep 30 01:22:42 localhost kernel: block drbd0: drbd_bm_resize called with capacity == 0 Sep 30 01:22:42 localhost kernel: block drbd0: worker terminated Sep 30 01:22:42 localhost kernel: block drbd0: Terminating worker thread Sep 30 01:22:42 localhost kernel: drbd: module cleanup done. Cheers Simon Carey-Smith CCIF France -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Error-when-trying-to-mount-drbd-partition-%3A-%27Bad-geometry%3A-block-count-xxx-exceeds-size-of-device%27-tp25779479p25832487.html Sent from the DRBD - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.