[email protected] wrote: > I have a fairly simple 2 node cluster running drbd, drbdlinks and > heartbeat. It runs the services httpd, mysql and smb. The drbd disk is > on a separate disk than the OS. > > The cluster's OS is fedora Core 8 and runs heartbeat-2.1.2-2.fc8 and > uses R1-style configuration. Since Fedora 8 is end of life, I need to > rebuild and install a new OS which will be RHEL5. > > My plan is to stop heartbeat and drbd on the backup node. Install the > new OS. Install the heartbeat packages, drbd and copy > back the heartbeat configs (ha.cf etc). Since the drbd disk will not be > touched during the install, my hope is that the disk will sync up fine. > > I have the heartbeat rpms for RH5 which were downloaded from the > recommended site on linux-ha.org. They are heartbeat-2.1.4-2.1.i386.rpm. > Can I run heartbeat-2.1.4-2.1 on the newly installed system while > heartbeat-2.1.2-2 is running on the old system until I can get the other > system upgraded to the new os? Seems like it would be fine, but wanted > to double check.
>From what you read (not that I knew from ever doing so myself): Should be possible. v1 has not been touched in a fairly long time. The drbd part is definitely supported and should work right away. I'd still recommend to test the drbd part outside of heartbeat first (bring up drbd on the new installed machine and see whether it does secondary/uptodate). Regards Dominik _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
