[DRBD-user] I/O Stalling on /dev/drbd0

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Sep 18 22:15:09 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.


On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:19:09PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 18 September 2007 16:15:42 Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:50:59PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
> > > Ok, I have several DRBD cluster pairs, all using Dell PowerEdge 1950
> > > servers (twin dual-core Xeons with 2GB ram, 2x 250GB SATA disks on PERC 5
> > > RAID-1)
> > >
> > > I'm running DRBD version 8.0.0 pre 4, as shipped with Mandriva 2007.1,
> > > using heartbeat to manage failover.
> >
> > also see what H.D. was saying.
> >
> > but.
> >
> > please, PLEASE do not use "pre" == pre-release versions,
> > if there are releases available.
> >
> > go for drbd 8.0.6, thanks.
> > don't care who shipped what when,
> > pre-releases do not belong in production.
> 
> I hear you

sorry for shouting :)

> - do I need to upgrade the kernel on my servers as well as the 
> drbd-utils packages?

the latest mandriva kernel should be fine.
that is a 2.6.17.whatever plus a few mandriva patches, I assume?

to upgrade drbd, you just need to upgrade the module,
and usually the userland tools as well.
but maybe you just give your favorite distro a chance,
seems they are about to do that for you:
 http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=33105

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