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, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner at linbit.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Let me point out a few highlights: > > *) Use drbd-overview instead of 'cat /proc/drbd' > > *) The udev rule provides you nice symlinks for the drbd device nodes: > > /dev/drbd/by-res/foo-bar > > *) include statement: > Although we have not yet changed the configuration examples, but now > it is possible to have a drbd.conf that looks like this: > > include "/etc/drbd.d/global_shared.conf" > include "/etc/drbd.d/*.res" > > *) the congested_fn should improve overall system performance on machines > with hight IO load. > > *) The outdate-wfc-timeout allows one to tune the wait-for-connect > time down to 1 second in case the peer is already outdated. > > 8.3.1rc1 (api:86/proto:86-89) > -------- > * Fixed drbdadm invalidate on disconnected devices (reg in 8.2.7) > * Adding a missing range check in ensure_mdev() > * Implemented a congested_fn; the kernel can keep its pdflushes running now > * Improvements the connection code for high latency links > * Fix for several potential memory leaks when allocating a device > * Use an additional meta data bit to store the fact of an old crashed primary > * Udev rule that populates /dev/drbd/by-res/ and /dev/drbd/by-disk/ > * New timeout option: outdated-wfc-timeout > * New drbdmeta option: --ignore-sanity-checks > * Include statement for drbd.conf > * Improvements to drbd-overview.pl > * Fixed snapshot-resync-target-lvm.sh to work with more than 10 devices > * Do not force a full resync after a detach on a primary node > * Compatibility with Linux 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 > > http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.1rc1.tar.gz > http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.3.1rc1 > > Testing and comments welcome! > > -Phil Phil, Is there any progress / movement / effort being expended on getting drbd into the vanilla kernel. I know there were some lkml discussions last year, but they seemed to just peter out. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com