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<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri>Is anyone up late on a
Saturday night who can tell me if there are any caveats or gotchas I should be
aware of when upgrading from drbd 8.3.2 to 8.3.8?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT
face=Calibri></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri>I have two RHEL 5.5
servers running drbd 8.3.2 built from source. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT
face=Calibri></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri>My plan is
to:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT
face=Calibri></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri> shut
down high availability services on the secondary server</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri> shut
down drbd on the secondary server</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri> build
the new drbd and kmod-drbd</FONT> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri> start
the new drbd</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri> start
high availability services</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri>
trigger a failover (secondary now becomes primary)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri> repeat
the same process on the old primary</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT
face=Calibri></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri>Are there any
incompatibilities between 8.3.2 and 8.3.8 that might get in the way? Does it
matter whether I am using internal or external metadata? (I think I am using
internal, but how do I tell for sure?)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011><FONT face=Calibri>If someone wants to take
a crack at these questions this fine Saturday evening, I would be a happy
man.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212384503-23072011> </SPAN></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT size=3
face=Calibri>--<BR></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Eric
Robinson<BR></FONT></SPAN></P>
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