Dear WinDRBD community, We are proud to announce the first public testing version of the new brightly shining 1.2 branch of WinDRBD. Under the hood a lot has been changed in this branch. The most notable changes are:
* WinDRBD 1.2 supports DRBD 9.1, DRBD 9.2 and future DRBD branches as HA block storage backends. * WinDRBD 1.2 can be built solely on Linux. * You can specify the DRBD engine to build against at build time. * There is a docker container containing all the build dependencies (still you can also create the container yourself or install the build dependencies on your host system). * WinDRBD 1.2 builds with MinGW instead of MS VC. This means that there are far less patches to DRBD necessary (less than 1% of DRBD is patched). * The patching system for DRBD has been completely reworked. Now manual patches reside on branches inside the DRBD repository. For example for DRBD 9.2 the current branch is win/windrbd-1.2-drbd-9.2.12. In addition there are 2 cocci patches which are applied by the build system. * And more code cleanups, bug fixes, ... more to follow. There are downloadable installers at the Linbit website (https://linbit.com/linbit-software-download-page-for-linstor-and-drbd-linux-driver/) built against DRBD 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2. In addition, it is very easy to compile an installer yourself, to get started go to: https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd/tree/windrbd-1.2 and follow the First things First instructions of the README.md. I would love to hear about your experiences with WinDRBD 1.2, Thanks a lot, - Johannes PS: Last but not least, WinDRBD 1.2 supports ReactOS (32 bit) as target system. This is very handy because the MinGW gcc (the compiler we use to build the driver) cannot output debug information for Microsoft Windows windbg but only for the GNU debugger (gdb). So we use gdb to debug WinDRBD on ReactOS which works suprisingly well. If you want to try WinDRBD on ReactOS, try running make help for build instructions. I'd also be more than happy to help out getting WinDRBD running on ReactOS, just drop me an eMail.
