[DRBD-user] 8.0.12 userland safe with 8.0.11 kernel module?

Florian Haas florian.haas at linbit.com
Thu Jul 17 11:48:40 CEST 2008

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


Christian Balzer wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:19:14 +0200 Florian Haas wrote:
>> Christian Balzer wrote:
>>> seeing that Debian Etch backports now (finally? :-p) has 8.0.12 I
>>> wonder if is safe to install the userland bits aka drbd8-utils while
>>> still running the 8.0.11 hand rolled kernel module for my hand rolled
>>> kernel.
>> Don't do that. Your DRBD userland tools should always match your kernel
>> module.
>>
> That's what I thought and I why I asked. Oh well, time schedule some
> downtime.

You do realize that without a matching kernel module, none of any new
features the DRBD userland exposes will actually work. So it really
doesn't do you any good to just upgrade the userland tools.

Florian

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