Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Adam Goryachev <mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using DRBD on a couple of systems for a while, and have just > used the version that came with my distro (debian stable (squeeze)) > since I really don't like to maintain compiling and installing from > source, and managing (remembering) to upgrade, recompile, etc each time > there is a new version. > > However, more and more, it would seem that my current 8.3.7 (debian > package 2:8.3.7-2.1) is probably missing a lot of bug fixes, but on > checking, debian testing only has 8.3.13, and even debian unstable has > only 8.3.13. > > So the question is, should I just bite the bullet and install DRBD from > source? > > I notice from http://www.drbd.org/download/packages/ that DRBD is > integrated into the vanilla kernel 2.6.33 or newer. > If I upgrade my debian stable kernel (2.6.32) to a newer version (either > debian testing or debian-backports) 3.2 based kernel, can I then just > download, compile, and install the latest 8.4.x version of DRBD? FWIW, the 3.6.2 kernel has drbd-8.3.13. I have no clue which kernel version has drbd-8.4.x, but its got to be something super bleeding edge.