Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:04:16PM +0900, Christian Balzer wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:48:40 +0200 Florian Haas wrote: > > > 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. > > > Of course I realize that. It was a question aimed to ease/streamline the > upgrade process. Get/install userland now, fix the bloody ownership and > permissions of drbdadm and friends _again_ so they work with heartbeat > (hello package maintainer :-p). And then do the happy dance of > failover a->b, restart a (well, reload module), failover b->a, restart b > at an opportune moment. actually, you can upgrade the userland tools without upgrading the kernel module, userland is (supposed to be) backwards compatible. what you should to avoid, though, is a newer module with older userland, as that may break things in non-obvious ways, e.g. the module calling userland helpers that userland does not know about... -- : Lars Ellenberg http://www.linbit.com : : DRBD/HA support and consulting sales at linbit.com : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : __ please don't Cc me, but send to list -- I'm subscribed