Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Is it possible to have this problem on 2.6 kernels ? (maybe stupid question, but I must ask it, I'm planning to use drbd+xfs with 2.6) Best regards, Blizbor Philipp Reisner wrote: > On Thursday 09 September 2004 23:13, Philipp Reisner wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I had the chance to install DRBD-0.7.3 on a SLES 8 system, and in >>the progress I discovered a quite bad problem with Linux-2.4.x >>and HIGHMEM. (This problem with HIGHMEM on Linux-2.4.x causes >>DRBD to drop connection and reconnect quite often, which in >>turn uncovered an other problem with caused the resync >>progress to starve). -- BTW, all this happenden because a >>paying custromer asked us to install drbd-0.7.x on the >>Linux-2.4.x based system. >> > > > In the meantime I realized that the problem was specific to > the SuSE variant of the 2.4.x kernel. > > => drbd-0.7.3 and earlier does work on Linux-2.4.x with HIGHMEM > => you need at least drbd-0.7.4 if you want to run on SuSE-2.4.x > with HIGHMEM > > -Philipp