[DRBD-user] blocking I/O with drbd

Andreas Kurz andreas at hastexo.com
Thu Dec 29 17:01:16 CET 2011

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On 12/29/2011 11:50 AM, Volker wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>>> ok ... still drbd 8.3.8 ... what does "iostat -dx" say during your test?
>> sadly, yes. elrepo is not an option here because its unofficial.
> 
> After hunting the problem in the perc6-caches, page-caches,
> lvm-alignment, etc. and not finding anything, i managed to convince some
> people here. We are going to try the packages from the
> elrepo-repository. any advice besides "use the latest!"?
> 
> I was going to use
> 
> drbd83-utils-8.3.12-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-drbd83-8.3.12-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

fine

> 
> since 8.4.x is sort of bleeding edge and still might contain some bugs.
> 
> Even though the update on a test-host went flawlessly:
> 
> Is there anything particular i need to look after before/after the
> update of the packages?
> 

no

> Any notes on compatibility between 8.3.8-1 and 8.3.12-1 i should be
> aware of?

none that I am aware of

> 
> Once the host is live again, i will report if that did the trick :-)

I'm curious too ;-)

Regards,
Andreas

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> 
> regards
> volker
> 
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