Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2004-02-10 15:24:42 +0100 \ Philipp Reisner: > Hi, > > I think that this will be the last drbd-0.6.x release. (In case > there is an issue with 0.6.11, there will be a .12 release of course.) > > * Updates to the debian directory (mostly by David Krovich) > * Documentation updates by Lars Ellenberg and Helmut Wollmersdorfer. > * Updates to the build system by Lars Ellenberg. > * Sending of IO hints is done non-blocking, by Lars Ellenberg. > * Code to make IOCTLs work on 64/32 bit platforms (PPC64, SPARC64, AMD64) > * Some code cleanups by LGE. > > I think the real highlights are the improvements to the documentation. > > In case you are running on drbd-0.6.10 I do not think that it is > worth the trouble to upgrade to 0.6.11. > > -Philipp You forgot to mention one important bug fix: * fix for timeout when asender is dead If the asender thread "goes away", but the syncer/currently sending process does not notice, the primary could be "stalled", retrying to send a data package for a full tcp stack timeout, which feels like "forever". This situation could be reproduced. This was real bug, and has been fixed. So maybe you should consider to upgrade anyways during the next scheduled maintenance period. Lars Ellenberg