[DRBD-announce] drbd-8.3.1rc1.tar.gz

[Philipp Reisner]

Hi,

Let me point out a few highlights:

*) Use drbd-overview instead of 'cat /proc/drbd'

*) The udev rule provides you nice symlinks for the drbd device nodes:

   /dev/drbd/by-res/foo-bar

*) include statement:
   Although we have not yet changed the configuration examples, but now
   it is possible to have a drbd.conf that looks like this:

   include "/etc/drbd.d/global_shared.conf"
   include "/etc/drbd.d/*.res"

*) the congested_fn should improve overall system performance on machines
   with hight IO load.

*) The outdate-wfc-timeout allows one to tune the wait-for-connect 
   time down to 1 second in case the peer is already outdated.

8.3.1rc1 (api:86/proto:86-89)
--------
 * Fixed drbdadm invalidate on disconnected devices (reg in 8.2.7)
 * Adding a missing range check in ensure_mdev()
 * Implemented a congested_fn; the kernel can keep its pdflushes running now
 * Improvements the connection code for high latency links
 * Fix for several potential memory leaks when allocating a device
 * Use an additional meta data bit to store the fact of an old crashed primary
 * Udev rule that populates /dev/drbd/by-res/ and /dev/drbd/by-disk/
 * New timeout option: outdated-wfc-timeout
 * New drbdmeta option: --ignore-sanity-checks
 * Include statement for drbd.conf
 * Improvements to drbd-overview.pl
 * Fixed snapshot-resync-target-lvm.sh to work with more than 10 devices
 * Do not force a full resync after a detach on a primary node
 * Compatibility with Linux 2.6.27 and 2.6.28

http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.1rc1.tar.gz
http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.3.1rc1

Testing and comments welcome!

-Phil
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