[DRBD-user] update from 8.0.14 failure

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Jan 4 18:40:38 CET 2010

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On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 03:19:23PM +0000, Sven Geggus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got two Problems in my effort to upgrade an older installation (debian
> etch/drbd 8.0.14) to a more recent Version (debian etch with kernel
> 2.6.32.2 and drbd 8.3.7rc1). I'm going for the rc1 Version since 8.3.6 does
> not seem to compile on 2.6.32.x.
> 
> Unfortunately this does not work at all:
> 
> 1. Problem:
> Debian Package does not build:
> ...
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: user/config.h.in

run autoheader once

> 2. When installing manually from the tarball I get a more serious Problem
> afterwords:
>
>  ~/ # drbdadm attach all
> 0: Failure: (111) Low.dev. smaller than requested DRBD-dev. size.
> Command 'drbdsetup 0 disk /dev/sda3 /dev/sda3 internal --set-defaults --create-device --on-io-error=detach' terminated with exit code 10
> 
> dmesg shows the following:
> block drbd0: Starting worker thread (from cqueue [6849])
> block drbd0: ==> truncating very big lower level device to currently maximum possible 4294967295 sectors <==
> block drbd0: disk( Diskless -> Attaching ) 
> block drbd0: refusing to truncate a consistent device
> block drbd0: disk( Attaching -> Diskless ) 
> block drbd0: drbd_bm_resize called with capacity == 0
> block drbd0: worker terminated
> block drbd0: Terminating worker thread
> 
> This _did_ work bevore with the older Kernel using drbd 8.0.14

well, and it seems it does work for us, too.

maybe you misconfigured your new kernel?

> Any hint on how to fix this?

how about enable large block devices in your kernel?
hey, just asking... you know, sometimes it is just too easy to see :)

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