[DRBD-user] block: BARRIER is deprecated, use FLUSH/FUA instead

Florian Haas florian at hastexo.com
Thu Apr 5 16:31:58 CEST 2012

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


On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Lars Ellenberg
<lars.ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:56:52AM +0000, Maurits van de Lande wrote:
>> >Well you've mentioned here you're already working with Linbit, so
>> >what did they say about this? Surely the same issue would appear >on
>> >vmhost6a and vmhost6b whose configurations you've previously posted
>> >here
>> Yes the same issue occurs on all vmhostxx clusters. Linbit was looking
>> at the performance issues, they didn't check that bug report. Maybe I
>> should ask Linbit again. When I posted the bug at elrepo they said
>> they think it is a harmless warning.
>>
>> Hopefully we get a reply from Linbit regarding this subject.
>
> It is a harmless warning.
> The impact is neither barriers nor flush/fua will be available.
>
> It is caused by RHEL kernel being "kABI compatible" in theory,
> but in fact changed the semantics of bio bitfields completely,
> between 6.0 and 6.1.

OK. Then the situation is exactly the same as I explained here months ago:

http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2011-August/016628.html

And funnily enough, that same email was also quoted here:
http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=210

> Packages built by Linbit do not trigger this warning,
> and work correctly, afaik.
>
> I can't say what the centos packages do wrong,
> but I assume they have been built against 6.0 kernel headers,
> and now loaded into a 6.1 or later binary kernel.
>
> I suggest to rebuild against the correct headers.

That, too, is in http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=210

So it seems we need a cluebat for the ELrepo folks. Or is this
something that's really easy to get wrong during a build?

Florian



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