[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.18 and drbd-9.2.7

2023-12-22 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, Here comes the DRBD December release. drbd-9.1.18 and drbd-9.2.7. The updates that are worth mentioning are... The RDMA transport finally reaches general usability. As usual, I have plans to improve it further, it never stops. Regarding quorum, for a cluster containing two nodes with back

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.27.0

2023-12-22 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is drbd-utils version 9.27.0. There have not been any changes since RC1. For your convenience the announce mail for RC1: There is no too urgent reason to upgrade if things work for you, but this release contains some bug fixes and features: "adjust" got improved for diskles

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.27.0-rc.1

2023-12-15 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is RC1 of the upcoming drbd-utils release 9.27.0. There is no too urgent reason to upgrade if things work for you, but this release contains some bug fixes and features: "adjust" got improved for diskless Primaries. So far if the configuration changed in a way that for examp

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.18-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.7-rc.1

2023-12-13 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, Here comes the DRBD December release. drbd-9.1.18-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.7-rc.1. We have two updates that are worth mentioning. One, the RDMA transport finally reaches general usability. As usual, I have plans to improve it further, it never stops. The other improvement is in the area of the

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.4.0

2023-11-21 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is drbd-reactor version 1.4.0. We did not find any problems in RC1, for your convenience the RC1 announce below: The main feature is improved DRBD events tracking that now survives kernel upgrades. There has also been an improvement for the prometheus plugin that it works wi

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.4.0-rc.1

2023-11-08 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is RC1 of the upcoming version 1.4.0. The main feature is improved DRBD events tracking that now survives kernel upgrades. There has also been an improvement for the prometheus plugin that it works with any IP family even if "ipv6.disabled=1" is set on the kernel command line

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.17 and drbd-9.2.6

2023-11-03 Thread Dingwall, James
From: drbd-user-boun...@lists.linbit.com on behalf of Philipp Reisner Sent: 31 October 2023 16:07 To: drbd-annou...@lists.linbit.com Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Subject: [DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.17 and drbd-9.2.6 Hi, The tags for these releases don't seem to have made it it github yet.

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.17 and drbd-9.2.6

2023-10-31 Thread Philipp Reisner
Happy Halloween our spooky friends Our latest release shows we've made some mends To make sure your data processing has little delay We have brought back our RDMA from decay Our new DRBD encryption is meant to be scary It will definitely make any unauthorized parties be wary Our last update is

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.26.0

2023-10-30 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is version 9.26.0 of drbd-utils. We did not find any bugs in RC2, the only changes between RC2 and the final version are some minor documentation updates. For your convenience the RC1 and RC2 announce messages: RC1: ktls: For all the details please see Phil's drbd-9.2.6-rc.

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.17-rc.2 and drbd-9.2.6-rc.2

2023-10-24 Thread Philipp Reisner
Here are drbd-9.1.17-rc.2 and drbd-9.2.6-rc.2. Only a few changes on the 9.1 branch. After we had this UBSAN warning in rc.1 I want to give it one more RC week. The 9.2 branch saw way more changes than what is healthy for a release candidate week. I want to maintain only one TCP transport imple

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.26.0-rc.2

2023-10-20 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is the second release candidate for the upcoming 9.26.0 release. We did not find any problems in rc.1, but we wanted to squeeze in some new configuration options. Please see the rc.1 announcement for details, and the individual commits for the new RDMA and (load balancing) T

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.26.0-rc.1

2023-10-17 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is the first RC for the upcoming 9.26.0 release. My feeling is we accumulated more features and fixes than usual, so let's introduce some highlights: ktls: For all the details please see Phil's drbd-9.2.6-rc.1 announce mail, this adds the userspace bits. Note for packages: t

[DRBD-user] DRBD setup is failing on Ubuntu

2023-10-16 Thread shaik rizwan
Hi Team, I have installed DRBD with the following version and other details. Scenario: Two VMWARE VMs with Ubuntu 20.4 version. Installed DRBD utils on both the vms. After create md and restart the drbd service i am able to see the devices are ins sync My query and problem is when I restart

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.17-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.6-rc.1

2023-10-16 Thread Fabio M. Di Nitto
On 16/10/2023 22.19, Philipp Reisner wrote: Hello, This time, it took a bit longer, around ten weeks. For me, this was a fascinating development cycle. We got important fixes to the RDMA transport, which now works with the more recent Mellanox cards and drivers. However, there is still room

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.17-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.6-rc.1

2023-10-16 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, This time, it took a bit longer, around ten weeks. For me, this was a fascinating development cycle. We got important fixes to the RDMA transport, which now works with the more recent Mellanox cards and drivers. However, there is still room for improvement in the performance of DRBD's RD

[DRBD-user] DRBD setup is failing on Ubuntu

2023-10-12 Thread shaik rizwan
Hi Team, I have installed DRBD with the following version and other details. Scenario: Two VMWARE VMs with Ubuntu 20.4 version. Installed DRBD utils on both the vms. After create md and restart the drbd service i am able to see the devices are ins sync My query and problem is when I restart

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.3.0 (SNMP monitoring for DRBD)

2023-10-11 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, version 1.3.0 of drbd-reactor might be interesting not only for the current drbd-reactor users, but also for the ones that were looking for DRBD device monitoring via SNMP. Supporting SNMP with its different versions and capabilities (2c vs. 3) is not that trivial as the Rust lib

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.3.0-rc.1 (SNMP monitoring for DRBD)

2023-09-26 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this RC might be interesting not only for the current drbd-reactor users, but also for the ones that were looking for DRBD device monitoring via SNMP. Supporting SNMP with its different versions and capabilities (2c vs. 3) is not that trivial as the Rust library support (for all

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd syncing all resources hangs business app

2023-09-15 Thread Ferran Alchimia
Hi Roland, Thank you for your answer and time. I've been looking for the auto-resync-after-disable parameter without any luck. I'm using this command to search for it `linstor controller drbd-options -h`. So it seems that I'll have to build a resync chain since my physical resources aren't able to

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd syncing all resources hangs business app

2023-09-15 Thread Roland Kammerer
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Ferran Alchimia wrote: > We have 39 defined resoruces using the same settings. And all these > resources are running on the same RAID supported by two physical nvme ssd > drives. > We have two combined hosts and a diskless satellite host. The network card >

[DRBD-user] drbd syncing all resources hangs business app

2023-09-15 Thread Ferran Alchimia
Good Morning, When drbd syncs a few resources everything works fine. But when drbd needs to sync all resources (i.e. a host came back up) it hangs the business app running above. All our configuration drbd settings are default, this is a resource sample: resource "vm-100-disk-3" { options {

[DRBD-user] DRBD is diskless after restore server with another IP and hostname

2023-08-14 Thread Josef Karliak
Good afternoon, I've restored server to the another, but after changing its hostname and IP (with change to new IP and hostname in resources file) I see a diskless mode. What should I do to preserver my data on DRBD resources ? What did I missed ? Thanks and best regards J.Ka

[DRBD-user] DRBD is diskless after restore server with another IP and hostname

2023-08-14 Thread Josef Karliak
Good afternoon, I've restored server to the another, but after changing its hostname and IP (with change to new IP and hostname in resources file) I see a diskless mode. What should I do to preserver my data on DRBD resources ? What did I missed ? Thanks and best regards J.Ka

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.16 and drbd-9.2.5

2023-08-09 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello DRBD users, Here are the final drbd-9.1.16 and drbd-9.2.5 releases. No regression was found during the release candidate week. This is a boring release because we fixed no exceptional bugs. All the addressed bugs need very particular conditions to trigger. Nearly all of them have consequenc

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.16-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.5-rc.1

2023-08-02 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello DRBD users, Following the usual about eight-week release cadence, here are drbd-9.1.16-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.5-rc.1 comming. This is a boring release because we fixed no exceptional bugs. All the addressed bugs need very particular conditions to trigger. Nearly all of them have consequences tha

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.25.0

2023-07-26 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is version 9.25.0 of drbd-utils. There is no too urgent need to upgrade if the latest stable release works for you. For your convenience the summaries of the two RCs: The most important new feature is a major update of drbdmon that is now able to interact with resources (i.e

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.25.0-rc.2

2023-07-18 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is RC2 of the upcoming drbd-utils version 9.25.0. No big changes since RC1, but one "breaking". The format of "drbdsetup show --json" for meta-data information changed. For indexed external meta data which basically nobody uses anyways we generated a key/value pair like: '"/p

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.25.0-rc.1

2023-07-07 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is RC1 of the upcoming drbd-utils version 9.25.0. The most important new feature is a major update of drbdmon that is now able to interact with resources (i.e., run drbd-utils commands on them). The rest are improvements like putting lock files to a separate directory and som

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.24.0

2023-06-15 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is version 9.24.0 of drbd-utils. There have not been any changes since the last RC. For your convenience the original announcement: We accumulated a lot of minor improvements (updating the windrbd bits, lots of documentation updates, user defined block sizes,...). The main r

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.24.0-rc.1

2023-06-07 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is the first RC for the upcoming version 9.24.0 of drbd-utils. We accumulated a lot of minor improvements (updating the windrbd bits, lots of documentation updates, user defined block sizes,...). The main reason to finally get this out is that we added a new sub-command named

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.15 and drbd-9.2.4

2023-06-05 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello DRBD users, I am glad to announce yet another release, drbd-9.1.15 and drbd-9.2.4. Our 'eat your own dog food' policy led to another bug we were able to fix shortly before the release (during the rc.1 phase). It reproduces on drbd-9.2. On drbd-9.1 it reproduces only with a non-default CPU m

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.15-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.4-rc.1

2023-05-26 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi DRBD users, I am glad to announce yet another release cycle, drbd-9.1.15-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.4-rc.1. I know that users of recent kernels are eagerly waiting for this release. Even if a previous DRBD release was compile-time compatible with Linux-6.2 and later, the resulting module crashed your s

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.2.0

2023-05-09 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is version 1.2.0 of drbd-reactor. There have not been any reported issues in RC1. With some public holidays and not wanting to do a Fri release it just took a bit longer. For your convenience the original announcement (and some upgrade hint): There are two noteworthy changes

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.2.0-rc.1

2023-04-25 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is first RC1 of the upcoming drbd-reactor version 1.2.0. There are two noteworthy changes in this release: - The promoter plugin used a shell wrapper script shipped in drbd-utils to handle OCF agents. This wrapper was replaced by a proper Rust binary. The advantage is t

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.14 and drbd-9.2.3

2023-04-04 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello DRBD-user, Today I am announcing the drbd-9.1.14 and drbd-9.2.3 releases. In this eight-week development cycle, we fixed interesting issues in different places. An area of attention was the "resync-after" functionality. This feature allows you to serialize resyncs of resources. That is int

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.14 and drbd-9.2.3

2023-04-04 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello DRBD-user, Today I am announcing the drbd-9.1.14 and drbd-9.2.3 releases. In this eight-week development cycle, we fixed interesting issues in different places. An area of attention was the "resync-after" functionality. This feature allows you to serialize resyncs of resources. That is i

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.14-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.3-rc.1

2023-03-27 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello DRBD-user, Today I am announcing the release candidate 1 of the next releases of drbd-9.1 and drbd-9.2. In this eight-week development cycle, we fixed interesting issues in different places. An area of attention was the "resync-after" functionality. This feature allows you to serialize resy

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.1.0

2023-03-23 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is drbd-reactor version 1.1.0. There have not been any reported issues for RC1. Noteworthy things in this release: - the prometheus plugin now exposes a metric for DRBD versions (loaded kernel module and drbd-utils). Currently this is evaluated once at plugin start. - a

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD on top of mdraid troubles

2023-03-21 Thread Sinisa
Maybe you should forward this to linux-r...@vger.kernel.org It could be some race condition, similar to what happened to me with XFS amd md10 a few years ako (resolved very quickly btw) Srdačan pozdrav / Best regards / Freundliche Grüße / Cordialement / よろしくお願いします Siniša Bandin On 2023-03-17 1

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD on top of mdraid troubles

2023-03-17 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/17/23 03:50, Roland Kammerer wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 03:16:20PM +0200, Athanasios Chatziathanassiou wrote: drbd raid10_ssd/0 drbd1: Local IO failed in drbd_endio_write_sec_final. Detaching... I'd say you have a hardware problem on the backing device. Whenever DRBD tries to write the

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD on top of mdraid troubles

2023-03-17 Thread Roland Kammerer
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 03:16:20PM +0200, Athanasios Chatziathanassiou wrote: > drbd raid10_ssd/0 drbd1: Local IO failed in drbd_endio_write_sec_final. > Detaching... I'd say you have a hardware problem on the backing device. Whenever DRBD tries to write there local IO fails and then it detaches.

[DRBD-user] DRBD on top of mdraid troubles

2023-03-16 Thread Athanasios Chatziathanassiou
Hello, long time DRBD version 8.4 user, I thought I'd give DRBD 9.2 a try. Setup is typical active-passive 2 node with all flash 6 device mdraid 10 as the lower level storage and 10Gb ethernet between them. My problem is that drbd appears to randomly detach the lower level storage on the second

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.1.0-rc.1

2023-03-16 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is RC1 of the upcoming drbd-reactor version 1.1.0. Noteworthy things in this release: - the prometheus plugin now exposes a metric for DRBD versions (loaded kernel module and drbd-utils). Currently this is evaluated once at plugin start. - a fix for the promoter plugin w

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.0.1

2023-03-14 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is a minor bug-fix release for drbd-reactor. If you happened to use OCF agents it could have been that environment variables generated from OCF options have not been correctly escaped. We saw that on old versions of systemd (e.g., RHEL7-alike), but now we should have proper e

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.23.1

2023-03-14 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is version 9.23.1 of drbd-utils. There have not been any reported issues since RC1. For convenience the original RC announcement (note that LINSTOR in the meantime also found a workaround for the problem): With SDS/LINSTOR/k8s/... we are more and more in a world where we see

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.23.1-rc.1

2023-03-07 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is the first RC of a minor bugfix release to the latest stable version of drbd-utils. With SDS/LINSTOR/k8s/... we are more and more in a world where we see *a lot* of DRBD resources and no longer the classical "1 resource with my HA database" use case. There we also have to

[DRBD-user] drbd sync issues on *all* deployments

2023-02-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, I ran a drbdadm verify on all my drbd clusters (2 nodes each). It is still running, but by now the huge oos numbers look pretty scary: il06:~# ssh node24a cat /proc/drbd version: 8.4.11 (api:1/proto:86-101) srcversion: 32DFEF1F0DADCBF174877F7 1: cs:VerifyS ro:Secondary/Primary ds:Up

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.13 and drbd-9.2.2

2023-01-30 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, This is the final release of drbd-9.1.13 and drbd-9.2.2. In the number of changed lines, the work on improving quorum is the most significant change in this release. Here is a minor example that highlights the improvement. Consider nodes A, B, and C with ascending node IDs. C |

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD corruption with kmod-drbd90-9.1.8-1

2023-01-16 Thread Josh Fisher
There is already a bug report with Linbit/drbd on github. Issue #26 titled "Bug in drbd 9.1.5 on CentOS 7 #26" from Feb. 2022. I added an update to that issue noting that it persists in 9.1.12 and giving device info. On 8/19/22 04:14, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: Am 16.08.22 um 20:30 schrieb

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v1.0.0-rc.1

2022-12-30 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is the first RC for the upcoming 1.0.0 release of drbd-reactor. This version contains an improvement for the promoter plugin. I will just quote the commit log in the following. Just a word on the version number: I was told that there are people that wait for a 1.0.0 before t

[DRBD-user] DRBD

2022-12-23 Thread Thomas Aichinger
I run a HA NFS-Server Cluster on Ubuntu 18.04 server with pacemaker and DRBD 8.4. This NFS-Cluster worked pretty well for a while, but since a recent update my NFS clients complain about write errors whenever I switch master/slave nodes. This is quite annoying since the clients (virtual machin

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.10.2

2022-12-12 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is drbd-reactor v0.10.2. This fixes logging errors if said errors happen very early in the startup of the daemon which have been skipped as of now. The second fix is that we only run DRBD kernel module and drbd-utils version checks if we really need them. For example our k8s

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.10.1

2022-11-23 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is version 0.10.1 of drbd-reactor. There was a minor bug in "drbd-reactorctl status" that triggered an error when executed on "older" distributions that don't support cgroup freezing/have a too old systemd to report "systemctl show --property=FreezerState" (e.g., Ubuntu Focal

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.10.0

2022-11-21 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is version 0.10.0 of drbd-reactor. The main changes should be under the hood and not really noticeable by users. Because the Python toml parser library every distribution ships is broken and this is a Rust project anyways, I rewrote drbd-reactorctl in Rust. This should conta

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.12 & drbd-9.2.1

2022-11-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 6:30 AM Philipp Reisner wrote: > Hello, > > During the last week no showstopper came up. Here are the final releases. > > The most outstanding improvement is supporting thinly provisioned backing > devices with discard granularities larger than 128MiB. Here I mean with > s

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.12 & drbd-9.2.1

2022-11-14 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, During the last week no showstopper came up. Here are the final releases. The most outstanding improvement is supporting thinly provisioned backing devices with discard granularities larger than 128MiB. Here I mean with supporting, that during a resync we make sure not to cause unnecessary

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.10.0-rc.1

2022-11-10 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is RC1 of the upcoming drbd-reactor release v0.10.0. The main changes should be under the hood and not really noticeable by users. Because the Python toml parser library every distribution ships is broken and this is a Rust project anyways, I rewrote drbd-reactorctl in Rust.

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.12-rc.1 & drbd-9.2.1-rc.1

2022-11-07 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, The most outstanding improvement is supporting thinly provisioned backing devices with discard granularities larger than 128MiB. Here I mean with supporting, that during a resync we make sure not to cause unnecessary allocations in the backing block device, and merging the discard requests

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd build failure due to missing REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME symbol

2022-11-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 2:59 AM Christoph Böhmwalder < christoph.boehmwal...@linbit.com> wrote: > Am 28.10.22 um 00:59 schrieb Akemi Yagi:> Hi Reid, > > > > RHEL 9.1 beta is out. Kernel is 5.14.0-160.el9. Since REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME > > is gone like in the c9s kernel, drbd 9.x fails to build (tried wit

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd build failure due to missing REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME symbol

2022-11-02 Thread Christoph Böhmwalder
Am 02.11.22 um 11:16 schrieb Akemi Yagi: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 2:59 AM Christoph Böhmwalder > > wrote: > > Am 28.10.22 um 00:59 schrieb Akemi Yagi:> Hi Reid, > > > > RHEL 9.1 beta is out. Kernel is 5.14.0-160.el9. Since > REQ_OP_WRITE_SA

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd build failure due to missing REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME symbol

2022-11-02 Thread Christoph Böhmwalder
Am 28.10.22 um 00:59 schrieb Akemi Yagi:> Hi Reid, > > RHEL 9.1 beta is out. Kernel is 5.14.0-160.el9. Since REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME > is gone like in the c9s kernel, drbd 9.x fails to build (tried with 9.1.11). > > With the way things stand, when RHEL 9.1 hits the road in November, ELRepo > will not b

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd build failure due to missing REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME symbol

2022-10-31 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:31:21 -0700 Reid Wahl wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 2:11 AM Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: > > Am 26.07.22 um 03:24 schrieb Reid Wahl: > > drbd_csum_bio() in drbd_sender.c uses a constant (REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME) > > that was removed from the kernel in February: > > - https://gith

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.2.0

2022-10-10 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, I am proud and glad to announce drbd-9.2.0. It is a new feature release, bringing: 1) Lower latency for mirrored write requests Every mirrored write request gets completed one scheduler context switch earlier. This is a result of better integration with the networking stack. 2) Lower cont

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.9.0

2022-10-03 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is drbd-reactor version 0.9.0. No changes since the last RC, the original announcement for convenience: The main new feature is that the promoter plugin can now freeze the services of the currently active node when it loses quorum and then thaw them when the node gains quoru

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.2.0-rc.8

2022-09-28 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, Finally, the RDMA transport got the long necessary attention. Now it tests successfully on RHEL9 clones. And, BTW, we enabled also all of the regular tests, that test network interruption via iptables also for the RDMA transport. (iptables can only fetch RoCE packets with rdma_rxe, the soft

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.9.0-rc.3

2022-09-26 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is RC3 of the upcoming drbd-reactor version 0.9.0. There was only one commit in the promoter plugin that now does not run "systemctl freeze" with all services as arguments in one call, but calls freeze for every service individually. That allows is to filter service we don't

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.22.0

2022-09-22 Thread Eddie Chapman
On 20/09/2022 08:42, Roland Kammerer wrote: Dear DRBD users, The second bigger change is that the rpm part now generates a drbd-selinux sub package containing an updated SELinux policy. Depending on the host distribution, that package might even become a runtime dependency for the drbd-utils

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.22.0

2022-09-20 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, This is drbd-utils version 9.22.0. There have not been any reported issues since RC1, the only change is some changed wording in the documentation. We deprecated named connections. This was a feature I assume not too many users were aware of anyways, but it was possible to name c

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.9.0-rc.2

2022-09-09 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is RC2 for drbd-reactor version 0.9.0. You did not miss RC1, I found a stupid bug in RC1 when I rolled it out on one of our internal clusters... The main new feature is that the promoter plugin can now freeze the services of the currently active node when it loses quorum and

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.22.0-rc.1

2022-09-06 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, This is drbd-utils version 9.22.0-rc.1. I assume this will get a slightly longer RC phase to give users time to test the changes and give feedback. We deprecated named connections. This was a feature I assume not too many users were aware of anyways, but it was possible to name c

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.11

2022-09-05 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, The fix for the request processing that was quickly released with drbd-9.1.10, created another problem in the request processing code. This other problem is only reproducibly by us when we artificially delay a CPU thread by instrumenting the code. This bug in the request processing code can

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD user guide - GFS2 - recommendation to lose data?

2022-09-03 Thread Reid Wahl
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:15 AM Matt Kereczman wrote: > > On 8/16/22 16:58, Matt Kereczman wrote: > > On 8/2/22 22:48, Reid Wahl wrote: > >> Section 10.2: > >> "Also, it is recommended to use some of DRBD’s features for automatic > >> recovery from split brain. To do all this, include the followi

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.10

2022-09-01 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, It happened. There is a regression in drbd-9.1.9 that can cause kernel crashes. We are releasing drbd-9.1.10 immediately. With just this regression fixed. It is one of these cases, where a change interferes with the existing code in a way that we were not able to see during development and

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.2.0-rc.7

2022-08-30 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, we think that we fixed all known issues in the drbd-9.2 branch. (With the exception of the RDMA transport, which still has known issues) This time it comes with a new feature: Support for network namespaces That means that a drbd path (the part of a drbd connection that has IP addresses), wi

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.9

2022-08-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, during the summer season, we learned that in the progress of following upstream changes and introducing compatibility code (tests and coccinelle spatch files) we broke DRBD on partitions on all kernels older than Linux 5.10. Yes, partitions are handled differently than logic volumes in som

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.9-rc.1

2022-08-23 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, during the summer season, we learned that in the progress of following upstream changes and introducing compatibility code (tests and coccinelle spatch files) we broke DRBD on partitions on all kernels older than Linux 5.10. Yes, partitions are handled differently than logic volumes in som

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD corruption with kmod-drbd90-9.1.8-1

2022-08-19 Thread Christoph Böhmwalder
Am 16.08.22 um 20:30 schrieb Brent Jensen: > I just had my second DRBD cluster fail after updating > kmod-drbd90-9.1.8-1 and then upgrading the kernel. I'm not sure if the > kernel update broke things or if it was because it caused after the > reboot. About 2 weeks ago there was an update (kmod-drb

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD user guide - GFS2 - recommendation to lose data?

2022-08-18 Thread Matt Kereczman
On 8/16/22 16:58, Matt Kereczman wrote: On 8/2/22 22:48, Reid Wahl wrote: Section 10.2: "Also, it is recommended to use some of DRBD’s features for automatic recovery from split brain. To do all this, include the following lines in the resource configuration: ... By configuring auto-recovery pol

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD user guide - GFS2 - recommendation to lose data?

2022-08-16 Thread Matt Kereczman
On 8/2/22 22:48, Reid Wahl wrote: Section 10.2: "Also, it is recommended to use some of DRBD’s features for automatic recovery from split brain. To do all this, include the following lines in the resource configuration: ... By configuring auto-recovery policies, you are configuring effectively co

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD user guide - GFS2 integration handler missing

2022-08-16 Thread Matt Kereczman
On 8/3/22 02:06, Reid Wahl wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 10:43 PM Reid Wahl wrote: There is no "/sbin/kill-other-node.sh". What is the correct handler to use? I found /usr/lib/drbd/stonith_admin-fence-peer.sh. It may be that /usr/lib/drbd/crm_fence_peer.9.sh is equipped to be used with `fenc

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD corruption with kmod-drbd90-9.1.8-1

2022-08-16 Thread Brent Jensen
Issue at elrepo already reported: https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1250 Brent On 8/16/2022 11:30 AM, Brent Jensen wrote: I just had my second DRBD cluster fail after updating kmod-drbd90-9.1.8-1 and then upgrading the kernel. I'm not sure if the kernel update broke things or if it was becau

[DRBD-user] DRBD corruption with kmod-drbd90-9.1.8-1

2022-08-16 Thread Brent Jensen
I just had my second DRBD cluster fail after updating kmod-drbd90-9.1.8-1 and then upgrading the kernel. I'm not sure if the kernel update broke things or if it was because it caused after the reboot. About 2 weeks ago there was an update (kmod-drbd90-9.1.8-1) from elrepo, which got applied. Bu

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD user guide - GFS2 integration handler missing

2022-08-03 Thread Reid Wahl
On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 10:43 PM Reid Wahl wrote: > > There is no "/sbin/kill-other-node.sh". What is the correct handler to > use? I found /usr/lib/drbd/stonith_admin-fence-peer.sh. It may be that /usr/lib/drbd/crm_fence_peer.9.sh is equipped to be used with `fencing resource-and-stonith` and is

[DRBD-user] DRBD user guide - GFS2 - recommendation to lose data?

2022-08-02 Thread Reid Wahl
Section 10.2: "Also, it is recommended to use some of DRBD’s features for automatic recovery from split brain. To do all this, include the following lines in the resource configuration: ... By configuring auto-recovery policies, you are configuring effectively configuring automatic data-loss! Be su

[DRBD-user] DRBD user guide - GFS2 integration handler missing

2022-08-02 Thread Reid Wahl
There is no "/sbin/kill-other-node.sh". What is the correct handler to use? I found /usr/lib/drbd/stonith_admin-fence-peer.sh. -- Regards, Reid Wahl (He/Him) Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat RHEL High Availability - Pacemaker ___ Star us on GITHUB: h

[DRBD-user] drbd 9.06 3 node cluster on Proxmox 4.4 not working

2022-07-28 Thread Michele Rossetti
Hi All, I have a problem and I hope that someone can help me. I have a 3 node cluster with Proxmox 4.4 and DRBD 9.06.1 with drbdmanage 0.99.4 working in production from 2016 and for some reason I don't like to update to the new version for the moment . Now Proxmox is still working but DR

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd build failure due to missing REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME symbol

2022-07-26 Thread Reid Wahl
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 2:42 AM Roland Kammerer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 11:11:01AM +0200, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: > > ... and this is why we'll all be happy when DRBD is finally *only* in > > the upstream kernel again :) > > especially the RHEL/CentOS users where the in-tree DRBD mo

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd build failure due to missing REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME symbol

2022-07-26 Thread Reid Wahl
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 2:11 AM Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: > > Am 26.07.22 um 03:24 schrieb Reid Wahl: > > drbd_csum_bio() in drbd_sender.c uses a constant (REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME) > > that was removed from the kernel in February: > > - https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd/blob/drbd-9.1/drbd/drbd_sender.c#L

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd build failure due to missing REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME symbol

2022-07-26 Thread Roland Kammerer
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 11:11:01AM +0200, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: > ... and this is why we'll all be happy when DRBD is finally *only* in > the upstream kernel again :) especially the RHEL/CentOS users where the in-tree DRBD module is disabled :P ___

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd build failure due to missing REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME symbol

2022-07-26 Thread Christoph Böhmwalder
Am 26.07.22 um 03:24 schrieb Reid Wahl: > drbd_csum_bio() in drbd_sender.c uses a constant (REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME) > that was removed from the kernel in February: > - https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd/blob/drbd-9.1/drbd/drbd_sender.c#L360-L361 > > Here's where the constant was removed: > - > https://git

[DRBD-user] drbd build failure due to missing REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME symbol

2022-07-25 Thread Reid Wahl
drbd_csum_bio() in drbd_sender.c uses a constant (REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME) that was removed from the kernel in February: - https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd/blob/drbd-9.1/drbd/drbd_sender.c#L360-L361 Here's where the constant was removed: - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/73bd66d9#diff-3b0e31d21e

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.21.4

2022-07-17 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD-users, this is version 9.21.4 of drbd-utils. It is a bugfix release, but if things worked for you so far there is no too urgent need to update. The fixes were triggered by customers in rare edge cases like an uncommon drbd-proxy setup. The second fix is for the sh-ip subcommand that segf

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.8

2022-07-14 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello DRBD users, Here is the final drbd-9.1.8 release. Another rc in the 9.2 series will follow next week. With this release we restored the protocol compatibility with drbd-8.4. The reason behind this is that we want to discontinue drbd-9.0. Since upstream Linux still contains drbd-8.4 we want t

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.1.8-rc.1 & drbd-9.2.0-rc.6

2022-07-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello DRBD users, Announcing the parallel release of drbd-9.1.8-rc.1 and drbd-9.2.0-rc.6. In both you will find that we restored the protocol compatibility with drbd-8.4. The reason behind this is that we want to discontinue drbd-9.0. Since upstream Linux still contains drbd-8.4 we want to have ou

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.21.3

2022-07-01 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD-users, this is version 9.21.3 of DRBD utils. It fixes 1 bug that occurred if you had very large disks and therefore a large activity log. Now "apply-al" for bitmap sizes > 4GiB should work as expected. There is no too urgent need to upgrade if your disks are "small" enough. Regards, rck

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.8.0

2022-06-30 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD Reactor users, this is drbd-reactor version 0.8.0. There have not been any changes since RC1, the slightly adapted original announcement for you convenience: The main change is integration of "secondary --force" in the promoter plugin. IMO that is a very nice feature and can make the di

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.8.0-rc.1

2022-06-22 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD Reactor users, this is RC1 of the upcoming drbd-reactor v0.8.0 release. The main change is integration of "secondary --force" in the promoter plugin. IMO that is a very nice feature and can make the difference between rebooting a node hat has hundreds of resources just because of one fau

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils v9.21.2

2022-06-08 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is drbd-utils 9.21.2. There is no urgent need to upgrade, it improves the shim that is used in drbd-reactor to allow using the recently added 'secondary --force' feature. This release is merely to bump the version so we can depend on it in the next drbd-reactor release. TGZ:

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.7.0

2022-05-19 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is version 0.7.0 of drbd-reactor. There have not been any changes since RC1, the rest is the RC1 announce mail: It brings bug fixes, improves robustness and includes a new feature. I recommend all users to upgrade to the final version. Features are always more interesting t

[DRBD-user] drbd-reactor v0.7.0-rc.1

2022-05-12 Thread Roland Kammerer
Dear DRBD users, this is RC1 of the upcoming 0.7.0 release of drbd-reactor. It brings bug fixes, improves robustness and includes a new feature. I recommend all users to upgrade to the final version. Features are always more interesting than bug fixes, let's start with that: For DRBD resources (

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