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Dear DRBD and WinDRBD community,<br>
<br>
We proudly present WinDRBD 0.10.7: it has a set of new features that
improve usability and feature completeness (compared to the Linux
version of DRBD). Among the new features are:<br>
<br>
Online verify (with crc32c checksum algorithm): Check if both
backing devices contain the same data. This will be printed in the
kernel log, so you will have to have logging configured.<br>
<br>
drbdadm status and drbdsetup events2 as non-Administrator: Finally I
got an idea how to implement drbdadm status as non-Administrator.
Put shortly the WinDRBD threads (in the Linux emulation layer,
struct task_struct) finally learned permissions (admin/no admin). We
then added a new device object, just like the root object but
permissions world accessible and set the permission to no admin when
this object is opened (the drbd-utils try to open admin device
object first, then when error is ACCESS_DENIED it tries to open the
user object). Finally we check if the command is allowed for
non-Admin users (there is a flag in the netlink packet descriptor)
and allow netlink packets used for drbdadm status and drbdsetup
events2. <br>
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The installer has learned to install the bus device needed for disk
devices so a manual installation is not needed any more. This
feature can cause problems on some systems so there is a checkbox to
turn it off. If you have troubles with installing the bus device
from the installer please report that.<br>
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Also the syslog IP address can finally be changed by a windrbd
command (windrbd set-syslog-ip) at any time so one does not need a
reboot any more when the syslog IP should be changed.<br>
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Please refer to the file WHATSNEW.md
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd/blob/master/WHATSNEW.md">https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd/blob/master/WHATSNEW.md</a>) for more
features we've implemented in WinDRBD 0.10.7<br>
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As always an installable image with a signed driver can be
downloaded from (attention the URL has changed):<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.linbit.com/linbit-software-download-page-for-linstor-and-drbd-linux-driver/">https://www.linbit.com/linbit-software-download-page-for-linstor-and-drbd-linux-driver/</a><br>
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Thank you for helping WinDRBD development by using it,<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
- Johannes<br>
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