[DRBD-user] Request for help with DRBD-0.7

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue May 11 10:28:56 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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/ 2004-05-11 10:05:21 +0200
\ Philipp Reisner:
> > When the 0.7 will be out?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> DRBD 0.7 is out today, was out yesterday :) The only thing is that
> we do not believe that it is as stable as drbd-0.6.x is .
> 
> But, Yesterday drbd-0.7-pre7 got released! 
> It is a very big step in DRBD-0.7's development. 
> 
> This is the request to everybody who waits for DRBD-0.7-final to 
> help testing DRBD-0.7-pre7.
> 
> As with today the only open issue is that it currently does
> not work with XFS.  (Earlier releases already worked with XFS, 
> it must be something on the surface..., not a desing bug...)

note that in my 2.6.5 uml setup, xfs *seems* to work at first.
it hangs every now and then in some strange code path seemingly
unrelated to DRBD, though. (it does so on plain DM, too, when not that
often as on top of DRBD; so this might be an issue with my UML kernel)...

> 
> PLEASE HELP FINDING BUGS IN DRBD-0.7
> 
> PS: So far, this mail indicates that only posts like "bla bla
>     crashed my drbd-0.7 setup" are welcome. We would also enjoy
>     mails like, "I stress tested DRBD-0.7 for 48 hours, and 
>     did run app-x-y-z for 48 hours, and did 2880 disconnect/reconnect
>     cycles in this time, and it works like a charm on my 16 processor
>     boxes ... " :)
> 
> -Philipp

	Lars Ellenberg



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