[DRBD-user] 4TB limit

Brian R. Hellman brian at linbit.com
Tue May 17 18:28:07 CEST 2011

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


You have to run a newer edition of DRBD, with 8.3.10  the limit is 1
petabyte.

See http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=blob;f=ChangeLog;hb=HEAD

Good luck,
Brian

On 05/17/2011 05:05 AM, Mikael Andersson wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have setup DRBD on a partition that is 9TB but /dev/drbd1 is only 4TB in size.
> OS is Ubuntu 10.04 64bit and have apt-get installed drbd-utils getting version 8.3.7
> drbdadm -V
> DRBDADM_BUILDTAG=GIT-hash:\ ea9e28dbff98e331a62bcbcc63a6135808fe2917\ build\ by\ buildd at yellow\,\ 2010-06-01\ 11:06:12
> DRBDADM_API_VERSION=88
> DRBD_KERNEL_VERSION_CODE=0x080307
> DRBDADM_VERSION_CODE=0x080307
> DRBDADM_VERSION=8.3.7
>
> And google tells me that the limit should be 16TB on 64bit systems that I use. 
>
> I have more or less followed this tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HighlyAvailableNFS
> Using that config.
>
> So why am I getting a limit of 4TB ?
>
> Grateful for any answer I can get.
>
> BestRegards
> Mikael
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