Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I think you can not use drbd 0.7 with 2.4 kernels. In fact drbd 0.6 is for 2.4 kernels and 0.7 for 2.6 kernels. Regards, Umberto On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:39 +0200, Ingvar Hagelund wrote: > Hello, list > > We have a couple of Dell 2650 machines which we have had quite a lot > problems with. They are impossible to get stable under load with 2.6 > at all (a whole other story), and with 2.4, drbd-0.7 just freezes the > boxes completely. > > Running Debian Sarge, this is reproducable both with the > module-source-package that comes with Sarge (0.7.10) and with a custom > build 0.7.14 from the drbd.org tarball. > > To reproduce: > 1. Take a couple of 2cpu Dell 2650 machines, load them with Debian > Sarge, kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp, drbd0.7-utils and > drbd0.7-module-source > 2. Build and install drbd kernel modules with module-assisstant > 3. Make a drbd volume on one large mirror, for example a mirror of > 136GB volumes > 4. Do a 'mkfs -t ext3 /dev/drbd0' and watch how mke2fs starts up and > the system freezes completely. No error messages at all, even on the > console. > 5. Reboot, remove the debian packages and build drbd-0.7.14 from > drbd.org tarball. Repeat step 4 with exactly same results. > > drbd-0.6 seems to work flawlessly. > > Regards, > Ingvar Hagelund > -- Umberto Nicoletti | We are Pentium of Borg. +390415701366 unicoletti at prometeo.it | Division is futile. Prometeo S.R.L. The Software Experience | You will be approximated.