[DRBD-user] Upgrading to 8.2.0

Maxim Doucet maxim at alamaison.fr
Wed Oct 10 10:09:36 CEST 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


James Miller a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am currently running 8.0.3 and am contemplating upgrading to either 8.0.6
> or 8.2.0.  Which version is suggested to upgrade to?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>   
Hi,

Here's a copy-paste of the 8.2.0 release announcement, which explains
the differences between the versions.

Copied from
http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-announce/2007-September/000059.html :
> There are some news!
>
> You probably wonder what happened to 8.1. 8.1 is still around. It
> is our code branch that we prepare for the inclusion into mainline
> Linux.
>
> In the mean time it became necessary to have a code branch for new
> features as well. This is 8.2.
>
> There are no fundamental differences between the 8.x branches so
> far. Also we will continue to fix bugs in the 8.0.y branch and
> propagate it to the other 8.x branches.
>
> 8.0.x   Stable and very conservative release policy.
> 8.1     Necessary changes to get DRBD into mainline Linux.
> 8.2.y   New features. Linux-2.6 like development model.
>
> BTW, in 8.2 we also have changes to the on-the-wire DRBD
> protocol, but they are done in a backwards compatible way. I.e.
> it is possible to connect a drbd-8.0.x to drbd-8.2.x, but the
> new "data-integrity-alg" feature only works when both sides
> are drbd-8.2.x. (Rolling upgrades possible!)
>
> Here is the changelog entry:
>
> 8.2.0 (api:86/proto:86-87)
> --------
>  * Branch for new features after 8.1 and 8.0. We will do a number of
>    features that do not fiddle with the general architecture of DRBD.
>    This will be like the the current Linux-2.6 development model.
>  * Implemented the data-integrity-alg option. When this is set to
>    one of the kernel's hash algorithms, such a hash is shipped with
>    every user-data carrying packet. In case user-data is corrupted
>    on the network DRBD protests by dropping the connection.
>
> http://svn.drbd.org/drbd/tags/drbd-8.2.0/
> http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.2/drbd-8.2.0.tar.gz
> http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.2.0/ [ not yet there, but soon ]
>
> -Phil
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