[DRBD-user] Minor number count for DRBD 8.4

Bram Klein Gunnewiek bram at shockmedia.nl
Wed May 21 11:51:56 CEST 2014

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Anyone?

On 05/15/2014 01:17 PM, Bram Klein Gunnewiek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are upgrading our internal tools to support DRBD 8.4. When using 
> 8.3 we had a specific DRBD configuration in /etc/modprobe.d that set 
> the minor_count to 128 e.g.:
> root at testnode1:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/drbd.conf
> options drbd usermode_helper=/root/true minor_count=128
>
> While testing out 8.4 we are unsure if the minor_count is still 
> required. Using the above drbd configuration we created 131 DRBD 
> devices with the folowing script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> for i in `seq 0 130`;
> do
>     lvcreate -L 4M -n drbd_test_${i} vg1
>     lvcreate -L 128M -n drbd_test_${i}_meta vg1
>             drbdsetup new-resource r${i}
>     drbdsetup new-minor r${i} /dev/drbd${i} 0
>     drbdmeta --force /dev/drbd$i v08 /dev/vg1/drbd_test_${i}_meta 0 
> create-md
>     drbdmeta --force /dev/drbd$i v08 /dev/vg1/drbd_test_${i}_meta 0 
> apply-al
>     drbdsetup attach /dev/drbd$i /dev/vg1/drbd_test_$i 
> /dev/vg1/drbd_test_${i}_meta 0
> done
>
> This worked without any errors. All disks show up in /proc/drbd:
>
> 130: cs:StandAlone ro:Secondary/Unknown ds:Inconsistent/DUnknown r-----
>     ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:f oos:3840
>
> Is the minor_count setting still valid for 8.4? I did find this 
> changelog: 
> http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-recent-changes-defaults.html#s-recent-changes-defaults-minor-count
>
> It mentions that the maximum number of DRBD devices has changed to 
> 1,048,576 however I don't know if this value is default (and fixed). 
> For DRBD 8.3 the default value was 32 I think thats why we have a 
> specific option in the drbd kernel module of 128.
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