Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi Matt, Am Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:47:15 -0700 "Matt Graham" <danceswithcrows at usa.net> schrieb: > From: Lars Täuber <taeuber at bbaw.de> > > I administrate a running drbd system, that has some flaws. > > There are two SuSE 11.1 servers mirroring 12TB. > > Is it possible to migrate [that] to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? > > Probably. However, while SuSE has always been buggy, Ubuntu isn't that much > better AFAICT. You've heard all the "OMG Unity is horrible!!1!" traffic on > various mailing lists, right? That's more important for orkstations than > servers, but it shows they're out of touch with users' wants. I'd go for > CentOS or Gentoo myself. I'm relatively happy with the ubuntu LTS server versions so far. > > > Will drbd 8.3.11 understand the on-disk format of a previous 8.3.8.1 > > installation? > > Yes. Many thanks. I'll try it then. > > Install an Ubuntu system on the secondary and synchronize after > > installation, then make the new system primary and do the same to > > the [old] system. > > That should work. The main thing you'll have to do is account for all the > differences between the old distro and the new distro in terms of running > programs and config file differences. Of course. Lars