[DRBD-user] downgrade from 8.2 to 0.7

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Sep 24 01:42:50 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.


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:54:11PM +0200, Szilard Greszler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My question is to the developers of DRBD.
>
> Do you plan to finish the metadata conversion from v08 to v07 in the  
> near future?
>
> I'm developing a system which uses DRBD, and roll back to a previous  
> version is a requironment on it.
>
> I see that there is no any change on that part of code in 8.2.7rc1. How  
> probable that this conversion is going to be fully implemented in the  
> final 8.2.7?

what is it that you think is missing to call it "fully implemented"?

there is one fundamental problem: v08 UUIDs can express more
than v07 generation counters. it is impossible to convert them back.
that makes the back conversion fundamentally broken.

but as long as you make sure your drbd is in "Secondary/Secondary
UpToDate/UpToDate" before you take it down and back-convert, there is
nothing that can go wrong.

but to just answer the actual question(s):

 "No."

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