Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I tried the conversion and generation counters got zeroed out. So you say that this is not a problem as long as my drbd is consistent and not in secondary/secondary? BR, Szilárd Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:54:11PM +0200, Szilard Greszler wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My question is to the developers of DRBD. >> >> Do you plan to finish the metadata conversion from v08 to v07 in the >> near future? >> >> I'm developing a system which uses DRBD, and roll back to a previous >> version is a requironment on it. >> >> I see that there is no any change on that part of code in 8.2.7rc1. How >> probable that this conversion is going to be fully implemented in the >> final 8.2.7? >> > > what is it that you think is missing to call it "fully implemented"? > > there is one fundamental problem: v08 UUIDs can express more > than v07 generation counters. it is impossible to convert them back. > that makes the back conversion fundamentally broken. > > but as long as you make sure your drbd is in "Secondary/Secondary > UpToDate/UpToDate" before you take it down and back-convert, there is > nothing that can go wrong. > > but to just answer the actual question(s): > > "No." > >