[DRBD-user] 0.7.0 as SuSE-patch

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Jul 21 18:02:26 CEST 2004

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/ 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



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