Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2004-07-21 16:47:42 +0200 \ Joost Bartels: > Hi list; > > i've been messing around with the SuSE-9.1-prof indtallation, that has > DRBD-0.7-pre5 included. > After a lot of testing and frustration I found out that: > 1) DRBD 0.7-pre5 does *not* work after the automagic SuSE YOU kernel-patch. > It complains about an incorrect kernel-version (makes sense...) 0.7-pre5 does *not* work _at all_ :-) ... it still happily corrupts data ... appart from that, I guess that cd /usr/src/kernel-modules/drbd make clean; make; make install will make it the drbd.ko loadable again. > 2) There's no consistent documentation; the format of the configfile > /etc/drbd.conf differs from both DRBD-0.6.2 (that came with SuSE-8 which > i'm using now) and the DRBD-0.7.0 docs on the website. yessir. thats what you get for -pre packages. > Fiddling with the config-file made it possible to bring up a DRBD-device, > but I don't feel sure about the stability... > > I would like to install DRBD-0.7.0 but I lost you a bit on how to install > it on SuSE 9.1 (kernel 2.6.4-52-default)... :-( 9.1 has already received a kernel update for security reasons and should now run kernel-default-2.6.5-7.95 you just do tar xvzf drbd-0.7.0.tgz, cd drbd-0.7.0 make make install if that does not work, read INSTALL, and come back here again ... > Are there plans to create a SuSE Yast Online Update for the now released > 0.7.0 version? you never know... first they probably want to get SLES 9 out, and then the Service pack 1,2,3 for it... and if that all runs smoothly, you probably get some update on 9.1, too. :) Lars Ellenberg