Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> 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. Yes, point well-taken. I too am running RHEL-5 with DRBD coming out of the CentOS Extras repository. I have kernel updates disabled in yum.conf, and which allows me to safely update the kernel only when I know there is a matching DRBD available as well.