[DRBD-user] URGENT Request for DRBD Developers

David Coulson david at davidcoulson.net
Sat May 24 03:33:07 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.


Art Age Software wrote:
> A one-off build does not address the issue of continuing updates going forward.
>   
But you have an immediate need? I'd take a 'right now' fix given the 
opportunity, then figure out the rest later. I'm a very utilitarian 
individual - I just want it fixed most of the time.

> Is it so surprising that I do not want to be a package maintainer?
> This is why I chose a managed distro like RHEL/CentOS in the first
> place.
>   
You have to remember - DRBD is not officially part of RHEL, therefore is 
not part of the core CentOS repository. You are at the whims and desires 
of the package maintainers as to what is included in the extras/plus 
repos. You can't have the best of both worlds - Consistency and 
stability which comes from a tried and true package release schedule, 
plus non-standard packages tacked on the side. I run DRBD on RHEL with 
the understanding that i'm probably going to trip over somewhere when 
RedHat changes something and there are not new packages yet for DRBD 
(e.g. there was a lag of a day between the most current RHEL4 kernel and 
drbd82 kernel modules). That's a decision I made, and something I 
remember when it comes to making modifications - I face the same dilemma 
with XFS and OCFS2 which both have kernel dependencies. Once again, it's 
a calculated risk which I deal with.

David



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