[DRBD-user] drbdsetup 0 disk /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 internal --set-defaults --create-device failed - continuing

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Sep 8 14:17:06 CEST 2010

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, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:20:17AM +0500, Muhammad Sharfuddin wrote:
> OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1
> HAE SP1
> drbd version: 8.7.3

8.3.7 ... we don't have 8.7.x yet ;-)

> on one node I got the following messages while starting the drbd daemon
> 
> node1:~ # /etc/init.d/drbd start
> 
> Starting DRBD resources: [ d(r0) 0: Failure: (114) Lower device is
> already claimed. This usually means it is mounted.
> 
> 
> [r0] cmd /sbin/drbdsetup 0 disk /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 internal
> --set-defaults --create-device  failed - continuing!
> 
> s(r0) n(r0) ].
> 
> stop/start the drbd daemon two  times in a row fix the issue, i.e no more
> such messages.

There is no drbd daemon. DRBD is an in kernel stacking device driver,
configured through userland tools.
The second configuration attempt was successfull,
the disk was not claimed at that point anymore,
so whatever was accessing sdb1 had a short life.

> and the above message never comes before today.
> likewise the above message didn't came on the other node(node2)

Likely something triggered through udev (or other) had sdb1 open at that time.
It impossible to determine what had it open at that time, after the fact.

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