Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Ok, direct question here: why do you want to downgrade? (I considered a downgrade once, but then was able to fix the issues I was having, and just stayed with a patched 8.4.1) On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:02 PM, William Seligman <seligman at nevis.columbia.edu> wrote: > Is there any way of downgrading 8.4.1 to 8.3.12 without erasing the drbd > partition? When I try to start drbd 8.3.12 on a 8.4.1 partition, I get: > > > # service drbd start > Starting DRBD resources: [ > admin > no suitable meta data found :( > Command '/sbin/drbdmeta 0 v08 /dev/md2 internal check-resize' terminated with > exit code 255 > drbdadm check-resize admin: exited with code 255 > d(admin) 0: Failure: (119) No valid meta-data signature found. > > ==> Use 'drbdadm create-md res' to initialize meta-data area. <== > > > [admin] cmd /sbin/drbdsetup 0 disk /dev/md2 /dev/md2 internal --set-defaults > --create-device --fencing=resource-and-stonith failed - continuing! > > s(admin) n(admin) ]. > > > > > OK, but when I try the suggested command: > > # drbdadm create-md admin > pvs stderr: /dev/md2: Skipping (regex) > pvs stderr: Failed to read physical volume "/dev/md2" > pvs stderr: Unlocking /var/lock/lvm/P_global > pvs stderr: _undo_flock /var/lock/lvm/P_global > > md_offset 2873200996352 > al_offset 2873200963584 > bm_offset 2873113276416 > > Found LVM2 physical volume signature > 2805774684 kB left usable by current configuration > Could not determine the size of the actually used data area. > > Device size would be truncated, which > would corrupt data and result in > 'access beyond end of device' errors. > If you want me to do this, you need to zero out the first part > of the device (destroy the content). > You should be very sure that you mean it. > Operation refused. > > Command 'drbdmeta 0 v08 /dev/md2 internal create-md' terminated with exit code 40 > drbdadm create-md admin: exited with code 40 > > > Since I'm not certain that the problems I'm having with cman+pacemaker+drbd are > caused by my drbd version, I'm reluctant to do this (and spend several hours > restoring the partitions) unless I absolutely have to. > -- > Bill Seligman | Phone: (914) 591-2823 > Nevis Labs, Columbia Univ | mailto://seligman@nevis.columbia.edu > PO Box 137 | > Irvington NY 10533 USA | http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~seligman/ > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >