[DRBD-user] Latest Stable Release?

Tony Willoughby tony_willoughby at adc.com
Tue Apr 13 21:18:11 CEST 2004

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, 2004-04-13 at 15:14, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> / 2004-04-13 12:31:32 -0400
> \ Tony Willoughby:
> > 
> > Looking through the release history on drbd.org, it seems that 0.6.* is
> > under active development.
> 
> Nope.
> I was just good at fixing the "last remaining corner cases" :)
> 
> 0.7. is actively developed.
> 
> > What release is considered stable?  We are looking to upgrade many of
> > our customers and consider stability more important than just about
> > anything else.  To date, we've been running 0.6.4 and have been pretty
> > happy with it.
> 
> I'd say use 0.6.12
> Only new features are sync-group and ko-count.
> Rest was bug fixes...
> 
> But, if you did not hit any of those strange deadlock-of-Primary
> cases if something goes wrong on the Secondary that have been fixed
> since 0.6.4, and you think you won't hit them soonish, ...

My main motivation for upgrading is that I think I'd get better support
from this list if I was running something more modern.  

> 
> > We will be running in IBM 330/335's,
> > dual SMP, HIMEM, 10/100 Ethernet, SCSI disks.

I should have mentioned it would be running Red Hat 7.3 with a vanilla
2.4.23 kernel.

> 
> Maybe someone else wants to comment from a non-developers view ?
> 
> 	Lars Ellenberg
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Tony Willoughby
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Broadband Access and Transport Group
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