[DRBD-user] problems compiling drbd-3.8.10 on Debian/Squeeze

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Apr 19 09:15:30 CEST 2011

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 09:00:38AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
> 
> Am 18.04.2011 um 17:19 schrieb Jean-Francois Malouin:
> 
> >* Felix Frank <ff at mpexnet.de> [20110418 03:22]:
> 
> >>I believe you're supposed to be using the DRBD module from within the
> >>kernel source tree (Debian backported DRBD into their Squeeze
> >>kernel).
> >>
> >>I had bad luck building the out-of-tree module for a newish kernel
> >>recently, as well.
> 
> >Yes, Debian comes with 8.3.7.
> >However I can compile 8.3.8 no problem,
> >but not 8.3.10 so I'm just wondering...
> 
> Same problem here.
> 
> - Xen Dom0 does not work fully in newer kernels
> - newer DRBD seems not to work with kernel 2.6.32

At least DRBD works for me just fine.

We don't use Xen too much on Debian based things,
so I would not have noticed any problems there.

> A change from Xen to KVM is not an option for me,

If you would elaborate on that?
Just curious on what stops you.
"Political" reasons, technical reasons?
Which ones?

> so I use DRBD
> 8.3.7 in a conservative way (Primary/Secondary), no life migration.

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