[DRBD-user] Upgrade issues from 0.7.5 to 0.7.6

Philipp Reisner philipp.reisner at linbit.com
Tue Nov 30 13:44:49 CET 2004

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On Tuesday 30 November 2004 13:08, Kevin Izzet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Trying to upgrade from 0.7.5 to 0.7.6 having  followed instructions for
> building drbd as per usual but when  try to restart
> drbd I get the following error :-
>
>
> Starting DRBD resources:    max-buffers 4096 => 4096 out of range [32..32]
> Command '/sbin/drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 net 192.168.100.30:7788
> 192.168.100.31:7788 C --timeout=60 --connect-int=10 --ping-int=10
> --max-buffers=4096 --max-epoch-size=2048 --ko-count=4
> --on-disconnect=reconnect' terminated with exit code 20
> drbdadm aborting
>
>
> Now I am making the assumption that drbd 0.7.6 is backward compatible with
> 0.7.5 so here are the basic steps I'm using
> for the upgrade.
>
> 1. Shutdown HA services on secondary node
> 2. Clean and re-create the Kernel source (mrproper,cloneconfig, dep...)
> 3. make clean all in the drbd src dir
> 4. cd .. ; make install
> 5. drbd start
>
> If the above had worked I would then have
>
> 6. Restart HA services on secondary.
> 7. Stop services on primary forcing them onto secondary.
> 8. Perform steps 2 - 6 on now secondary server.
> 9. Job Done !!!!!
>
>
> I have tried to recover back to 0.7.5 but I get issues over the API and
> Proto Levels being wrong!!
>
> OS  Suse 9.0 Profes.
> Kernel 2.4.21-99-smp4G - vanilla Suse Kernel.
>

Hmmm, I will have a look at it... as a quick fix, just comment 
max-buffers out of your config. (I think its effect on real
performance is rather minimal, it default value is 2048)

-Philipp
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