Thanks so much! now it does work ok. Best regards Mariano > Mariano Gonzalvo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to configure lvm2 on top of drbd. I've configured drbd >> (/dev/drbd0 and /dev/drbd1) and put them as primary node, but when I try >> to create a physical volume this is what it does happens >> >> pvcreate /dev/drbd0 >> Physical volume "/dev/drbd0" successfully created >> pvdisplay >> --- NEW Physical volume --- >> PV Name /dev/md4 >> VG Name >> PV Size 129,45 GB >> Allocatable NO >> PE Size (KByte) 0 >> Total PE 0 >> Free PE 0 >> Allocated PE 0 >> PV UUID MtxjHy-8zfW-i9nq-TJA4-b6F9-jtcW-FkanLB >> >> /dev/md4 is the raid device over was configured drbd0. >> >> Why /dev/md4 it's taken as PV Name? >> >> > > It's trying to be helpful! Normally people build MD devices out of other devices > and so LVM uses the MD in preference to other devices it finds with the same UUID. > > You'll need to exclude the MD device in the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf filters entry. > something like: > > filter =[ "r/md4/" ] > > >