[DRBD-user] DRBD metadata issue + replacing a disk

Trevor Hemsley themsley at voiceflex.com
Thu Oct 15 14:27:09 CEST 2015

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


On 15/10/15 13:02, Ammar Sheikh Saleh wrote:
> When ==>  During normal operation

Are you attempting to use ext3/4 on both nodes at the same time?

>
> What's the IO stack below DRBD  ==>  4 Disks in JBOD
>
> Kernel upgrade is not possible now  ... but at the same time its not
> too old  ( v.2.6.32-431.20.3)

That kernel belongs to CentOS/RHEL 6.5 which is now approaching 2 years
old and has numerous security vulnerabilities present.

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Lars Ellenberg
> <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com <mailto:lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:32:11PM +0300, Ammar Sheikh Saleh wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I have one cluster with 2 nodes in active-active - master/slave
>     setup
>     >
>     > I see the following error messages in the system logs:
>
>     *when*.
>
>     After a hard crash?
>     After a simulated Crash?
>     After a switchover?
>     After a failover?
>     During normal operation?
>
>     What's the IO stack below DRBD?
>
>     > Jan  5 11:07:23 lws1h1 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device drbd1):
>     ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 3785: 27507 blocks in
>     bitmap, 27576 in gd
>     > Jan  5 11:07:53 lws1h1 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device drbd1):
>     ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 2437: 9219 blocks in
>     bitmap, 32546 in gd
>     > Jan  5 11:07:53 lws1h1 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device drbd1):
>     ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 2438: 9075 blocks in
>     bitmap, 32760 in gd
>     > Jan  5 11:07:53 lws1h1 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device drbd1):
>     ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 2442: 9078 blocks in
>     bitmap, 32768 in gd
>     > Jan  5 20:18:27 lws1h1 kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata
>     buffer (dev = drbd1, blocknr = 0). There's a risk of filesystem
>     corruption in case of system crash.
>     > Jan  5 22:02:18 lws1h1 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device drbd1):
>     ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 3795: 32532 blocks in
>     bitmap, 29780 in gd
>     > Jan  5 22:02:19 lws1h1 kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata
>     buffer (dev = drbd1, blocknr = 0). There's a risk of filesystem
>     corruption in case of system crash.
>     >
>     > What is the appropriate action to fix this issue
>
>     Did you even google for the message?
>     "JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer" turns up several bugzillas from
>     2010 and 2012, suggesting kernel upgrade would help.
>
>
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