Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
When is .8 due to be stable? On 6/1/06, Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote: > > / 2006-06-01 16:14:49 +0100 > \ paddy: > > is there any hard and fast rule about the on-disk structures ? > > what is the migration path to 0.8 like ? > > we drop the "0.", because the 0.7 (maybe already the 0.6.something) > should have been a "1.x" ... > > migration drbd 0.7 to drbd 8 would be something like: > * take down both nodes > (unless we incorporate some network protocol compatibility layer, > which is possible, but not very likely because it is much work and we > personally don't get much benefit from it) > > * install the drbd8 module and user space tools > * adjust the config (syntax has changed, some other options etc) > you can obviously prepare this beforehand... > * use drbdmeta (a new user space tool) to convert the existing > v07 meta data into a v8 one > (details how to do that follow on some wiki page) > but it already has a manpage. > you'd do something like > drbdmeta /dev/drbd0 v8 /dev/mapper/storage-drbd0_md 0 create-md > and, according to the manpage: > create-md > Create-md initializes the meta data storage. This needs to be > done before a DRBD resource can be taken online for the first > time. In case there is already a meta data signature of an > older format in place, drbdmeta will ask you if it should > convert the older format to the selected format. > I think the drbdadm would even do this for you (at least it probably > should... I'll verify that, and implement it if not already done). > then this would be "drbdadm convert-md-to-v8 all", > or something like that. > * start drbd 8 > > not too complicated, right? > > if you practice on a test system, > you can probably do this with a very > short downtime on a productive system. > > -- > : 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. > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > -- "Do the actors on Unsolved Mysteries ever get arrested because they look just like the criminal they are playing?" Christopher -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20060601/2f2a1c76/attachment.htm>