Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, This again is a call for all DRBD users, that have some testing equipment available, and are ready to contribute a bit of their time to testing DRBD. This is a release candidate, do not use it for production. This is a release candidate, do not package it for distributions. The most outstanding change with this release is, that DRBD now can use multiple BIOs (single IO requests) for processing a signle data packat on the receiving side. This allows DRBD in many more cases than before (on LVM's LVs) to process BIOs of a size of up to 32k. (Before that DRBD, in many cases, forced the whole stack down to a max BIO size of 4k). This is important for hardware setups where both disk IO subsystem and connecting network operate in the area of 10GBit/sec. Those become rapidly more common. 8.3.8rc1 (api:88/proto:86-94) -------- * Do not expose failed local READs to upper layers, regression introduced in 8.3.3 * Fixed support for devices with 4k hard sector size (again) * Fixed a potential Oops in the disconnect code * Fixed a race condition that could cause DRBD to consider the peers disk as Inconstent after resync instead of UpToDate (Bugz 271) * Fixed a reace condition that could cause DRBD to consider the peers disk as Outdated instead of Inconsistent during resync (Bugz 277) * Disallow to start a resync with invalidate / invalidate-remote when the source disk is not UpToDate * Forcing primary works now also for Consistent, not only for Outdated and Inconsistent (Bugz 266) * Improved robustness against corrupt or malicous sector addresses when receiving data * Added the initial-split-brain, it gets called also if the split-brain gets automatically resolved * Added the --assume-clean option for the resize command, it causes drbd to not resync the new storage after an online grow operation * drbdadm: Do not segfault if stacked-on-top-of refers to an undefined res * drbdadm: Do not consider configs with invalid after statements as invalid * drbdadm: Do not segfault if the peer's proxy section is missing * drbdadm: Allow nullglob in include statement * drbdadm: Fixed the use of waitpid * init script: fix insserv headers (Debian 576901) * Gave the receiving code the ability to use multiple BIOs for writing a single data packet; now DRBD works with BIOs up to 32kByte also on LVM devices; from now on the use_bmbv config option does nothing * New command check-resize, that allows DRBD to detect offline resizing and to move internal meta-data accordingly * Added a control loop, that allows DRBD to find auto tune the resync speed, on connections with large queues (drbd-proxy) * Create new current UUIDs late, after loosing connection to the peer * --dry-run option for connect; disconnects after sync handshake * --overwrite-data-of-peer got an alias named --force * Improvements to crm-fence-peer * Fixed option parsing and stacking in snapshot-resync-target-lvm.sh * Compiles on 2.6.33 and 2.6.34 http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=commit;h=drbd-8.3.8rc1 http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.8rc1.tar.gz Happy testing! -Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R) are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria.