[DRBD-user] Problem with DRBD and CLVM

Vladislav Bogdanov bubble at hoster-ok.com
Fri Sep 10 09:59:16 CEST 2010

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09.09.2010 20:17, Digimer wrote:
> On 10-09-09 01:06 PM, Adam Gandelman wrote:
>> On 09/09/2010 07:18 AM, Digimer wrote:
>>> vgcreate -c y drbd_vg0 /dev/drbd0
>>>   Found duplicate PV 4BbAHN2mFIP5pJsUE1ktdjSBwgFegmaG: using /dev/md3
>>> not /dev/drbd0
>>>   Error locking on node <node name>: Command timed out
>>>   Can't get lock for orphan PVs
>>>   
>> You're essentially not using DRBD anymore and now running CLVM commands
>> on a non-shared (local) disk.   Adjust your filters in lvm.conf to
>> ignore those underlying devices and try again.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
> 
> That was the trick. However, I've not been able to fathom a filter
> argument that simply ignores '/dev/md3'. It's working now by only
> accepting DRBD and rejecting the rest.
> 
> Simply 'a|/dev/drbd*|' or 'r|/dev/md*|' doesn't seem to be enough. It
> makes me a bit uncomfortable knowing that I'll have to remember to
> explicitly allow all future devices, rather than specifically ignoring
> the troubling one. Any suggestions there?

Did you rebuild initrd/initramfs?
lvm config is used there early at boot.



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