Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:11:08PM +0200, Lionel Sausin wrote: > > That's interresting. We use internal md indeed. > > Lionel. > > > > Le 25/05/2011 14:04, Mikael Andersson a écrit : > > > I do still have issues getting /dev/drbd1 device to come over 4TB > > > limit (4293787648 byte) Now I think I have tested just about everything I > can come up with, I found something I don't understand. > > > > > > When I configure "meta-disk internal" then I get what I want in size, > about 9TB. > > > But when I set "meta-disk /dev/sdb1[1]" I get the 4T limit. > > Works as designed. > > Maybe needs an additional sentence in bold in the man pages and User's > Guide. > > indexed external meta data is limited to 128 MiB: > meta-disk /dev/sde[3]; e.g. would live in megabytes 384 to 512 of sde. > So it only has room for just below 4 TiB. > > _flexible_ meta data is allowed to use up all available space of the meta data > device. > internal meta data is always flexible (with DRBD versions >= 8.x). > iirc, that would look like > flexible-meta-disk /dev/sde; > Well, thanks for your time and answer Lars. I didn't notice that in the documentation, now I know. Thanks and Regards Mikael Andersson