[DRBD-user] drbd-0.7 completely freezes on adaptec (Dell PercRaid 3/Di)

Umberto Nicoletti unicoletti at prometeo.it
Mon Oct 24 15:47:34 CEST 2005

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


I think you can not use drbd 0.7 with 2.4 kernels. In fact drbd 0.6 is
for 2.4 kernels and 0.7 for 2.6 kernels.

Regards,
Umberto

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:39 +0200, Ingvar Hagelund wrote:
> Hello, list
> 
> We have a couple of Dell 2650 machines which we have had quite a lot
> problems with. They are impossible to get stable under load with 2.6
> at all (a whole other story), and with 2.4, drbd-0.7 just freezes the
> boxes completely.
> 
> Running Debian Sarge, this is reproducable both with the
> module-source-package that comes with Sarge (0.7.10) and with a custom
> build 0.7.14 from the drbd.org tarball.
> 
> To reproduce:
> 1. Take a couple of 2cpu Dell 2650 machines, load them with Debian
>    Sarge, kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp, drbd0.7-utils and
>    drbd0.7-module-source
> 2. Build and install drbd kernel modules with module-assisstant
> 3. Make a drbd volume on one large mirror, for example a mirror of
>    136GB volumes
> 4. Do a 'mkfs -t ext3 /dev/drbd0' and watch how mke2fs starts up and
>    the system freezes completely. No error messages at all, even on the
>    console.
> 5. Reboot, remove the debian packages and build drbd-0.7.14 from
>    drbd.org tarball. Repeat step 4 with exactly same results.
> 
> drbd-0.6 seems to work flawlessly. 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingvar Hagelund
> 
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