Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
James Miller a écrit : > Hello everyone, > > I am currently running 8.0.3 and am contemplating upgrading to either 8.0.6 > or 8.2.0. Which version is suggested to upgrade to? > > > Thanks, > Jim > Hi, Here's a copy-paste of the 8.2.0 release announcement, which explains the differences between the versions. Copied from http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-announce/2007-September/000059.html : > There are some news! > > You probably wonder what happened to 8.1. 8.1 is still around. It > is our code branch that we prepare for the inclusion into mainline > Linux. > > In the mean time it became necessary to have a code branch for new > features as well. This is 8.2. > > There are no fundamental differences between the 8.x branches so > far. Also we will continue to fix bugs in the 8.0.y branch and > propagate it to the other 8.x branches. > > 8.0.x Stable and very conservative release policy. > 8.1 Necessary changes to get DRBD into mainline Linux. > 8.2.y New features. Linux-2.6 like development model. > > BTW, in 8.2 we also have changes to the on-the-wire DRBD > protocol, but they are done in a backwards compatible way. I.e. > it is possible to connect a drbd-8.0.x to drbd-8.2.x, but the > new "data-integrity-alg" feature only works when both sides > are drbd-8.2.x. (Rolling upgrades possible!) > > Here is the changelog entry: > > 8.2.0 (api:86/proto:86-87) > -------- > * Branch for new features after 8.1 and 8.0. We will do a number of > features that do not fiddle with the general architecture of DRBD. > This will be like the the current Linux-2.6 development model. > * Implemented the data-integrity-alg option. When this is set to > one of the kernel's hash algorithms, such a hash is shipped with > every user-data carrying packet. In case user-data is corrupted > on the network DRBD protests by dropping the connection. > > http://svn.drbd.org/drbd/tags/drbd-8.2.0/ > http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.2/drbd-8.2.0.tar.gz > http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.2.0/ [ not yet there, but soon ] > > -Phil > -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT > Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse > 48, 1120 Vienna, Austria http://www.linbit.com : > _______________________________________________ drbd-announce mailing > list drbd-announce at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-announce -- Maxim Doucet - www.alamaison.fr sys admin @ la maison