Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2005-10-24 15:39:44 +0200 \ Ingvar Hagelund: > 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. I may have a look if time permits ... there are two ways you can make me care more: * reproduce on 2.6 kernel, and/or * buy a support contract :-) -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schoenbrunner Str. 244, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.