[DRBD-user] Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS and DRBD

[Jake Smith]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lionel Sausin" <ls at numerigraphe.com>
> To: "Nick Morrison" <nick at nick.on.net>
> Cc: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 4:05:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS and DRBD
> 
> Le -10/01/-28163 20:59, Nick Morrison a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > This question relates to both DRBD and Ubuntu.
> >
> > Even though 12.04 LTS is just around the corner, I need a couple of
> > pairs of new DRBD machines in production.  Using 10.04.3 LTS, I
> > can "apt-get install drbd8-utils", and it neatly compiles a kernel
> > module and installs the userland tools, which is great, and even
> > seems to work :-),
> >
> > but they're version 8.3.7.
> >
> > Should I go out of my way to upgrade to 8.3.9 or higher, or is
> > using this version on Ubuntu "supported"? :-)
> >
> > Will my servers melt and delete my bytes if I use 8.3.7?  Or should
> > I be fine?
> >
> > N
> Hi,
> We've been using DRBD on Ubuntu Lucid and the packaged version worked
> rather fine except for this bug :
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/drbd8/+bug/744293

I realize you've updated past 8.3.7 so you probably wouldn't want to but for those that haven't and may not want to the Ubuntu-HA team developed a patch to fix the above bug which I have tested and am using.  They also submitted a SRU request that needs verification.  If anyone is willing to test the patched version it is in -proposed.
(and I would agree you should be fine on 8.3.7 except I would use the proposed version with the above bug patched)

HTH
Jake

> 
> However we've upgraded to 8.3.11 for the new features it provides,
> and I
> expect we'll upgrade to newer 8.3 releases later on.
> We have a PPD you can use :
> https://launchpad.net/~numerigraphe/+archive/ppa
> Our drbd packages are recompiled from the ubuntu source packages,
> with
> only the original tarball upgraded - nothing fancy. We do it that way
> mostly because Ubuntu packaged drbd for use with DKMS.
> If you build your own package, just make sure you build it on the
> same
> kernel version and architecture, or tune the configure magic that
> adapts
> the Makefile.
> 
> Lionel Sausin.
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