Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 13:50 schrieb Helmut Wollmersdorfer: > Philipp Reisner wrote: > > Please hold you feets still until DRBD-0.8 is released. In DRBD-0.8 we > > will support primary/primary, and with on of OCFS2, openGFS or GFS > > you will be able to build such a setup. > > Do I understand correctly, that plain FSs like EXT3 or XFS could not be > used, because of missing appropriate lock-mechanisms? And mounting > read-only of EXT3/XFS on the DRBD-Secondary will also not be possible? > Right. This is the reason why you get an EBUSY on Linux-2.6 & drbd-0.7 when you try to mount a device in secondary state. [...] > Can you expect a ready-to-test date for 0.8? > drbd-0.8 works already surprisingly good. Primary/primary is already in SVN.... I just had not found the time to really test it with one of the physical parallel file systems. But there is still item 16 on the ROADMAP, and I want to have that in before doing the first pre release. It might happen by the end of April -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, Austria http://www.linbit.com :