[DRBD-user] Device name change 8.4.3 to 8.4.6?

Roland Kammerer roland.kammerer at linbit.com
Mon May 4 08:41:29 CEST 2015

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 11:17:29PM +0100, Charles Lyons - ConnetU wrote:
> Resource name: This can be any arbitrary, US-ASCII name not
> containing whitespace by which the resource is referred to.
> 
> DRBD device: This is a virtual block device managed by DRBD... The
> associated block device is usually named /dev/drbdX, where X is the
> device minor number.
> 
> Is that correct? If that's the case, I should be able to work around
> all of this completely non disruptively and make it backwards
> compatible in our scripts. If I have to change resource names as
> well, it becomes much more laborious.

Having these arbitrary resource names should be fine. As long as you do
not try to be extra nasty and use crazy strings with newlines and such.

Regards, rck



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