Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 8.3.8.1 announcement missing ?

2010-10-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
is release. > Hm, right. That fell off the table. It was holiday season, I was personally on vacation... etc. Sorry. The next release will be 8.3.9, and that will get announced in the usual way on the drbd-announce mailing list. Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to Hi

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.9rc1.tar.gz

2010-10-08 Thread Philipp Reisner
eed display in /proc/drbd http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.9rc1.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=commit;h=drbd-8.3.9rc1 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.9rc2.tar.gz

2010-10-15 Thread Philipp Reisner
.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.9rc2.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=commit;h=drbd-8.3.9rc2 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R) are registered

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.9.tar.gz

2010-10-22 Thread Philipp Reisner
rt/drbd-8.3.9/ Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R) are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. ___ drbd-user ma

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.10rc1.tar.gz

2010-12-20 Thread Philipp Reisner
that provide the infrastructure to have kernel version independent modules * On 64bit architectures allow device sizes up to one petabyte http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.10rc1.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=commit;h=drbd-8.3.10rc1 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.10rc2.tar.gz

2011-01-12 Thread Philipp Reisner
bit architectures allow device sizes up to one petabyte http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.10rc2.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=commit;h=drbd-8.3.10rc2 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.10rc3.tar.gz

2011-01-21 Thread Philipp Reisner
version independent modules * On 64bit architectures allow device sizes up to one petabyte http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.10rc3.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=commit;h=drbd-8.3.10rc3 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.10.tar.gz

2011-01-28 Thread Philipp Reisner
architectures allow device sizes up to one petabyte http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.10.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.3.10 http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.3.10/ Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.10.tar.gz

2011-02-01 Thread Philipp Reisner
bd.conf man page. More documentation, a section dedicated to long distance replication in the users guide will follow in the next weeks. Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd network block device deadlock ?

2011-02-03 Thread Philipp Reisner
allocations in the write out path are backed by mempools (= Small amounts of pre allocated memory). DRBD does not deadlock in out of memory situations, at least since version 8. Maybe even earlier. Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +

Re: [DRBD-user] Maximum number of drbd devices supported?

2011-03-16 Thread Philipp Reisner
> Quick, and short :) Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R) are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. ___ drb

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.0rc1.tar.gz

2011-05-09 Thread Philipp Reisner
ll volumes) level http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.0rc1.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.4.0rc1 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LIN

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.11rc1.tar.gz

2011-05-23 Thread Philipp Reisner
-8.3.git;a=commit;h=drbd-8.3.11rc1 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R) are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.0rc2.tar.gz

2011-05-26 Thread Philipp Reisner
values http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.0rc2.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.4.0rc2 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R) are

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.11rc3.tar.gz

2011-06-22 Thread Philipp Reisner
t;h=drbd-8.3.11rc3 -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R) are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. ___ drbd-user mailing l

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.0rc3.tar.gz

2011-06-24 Thread Philipp Reisner
kernels older than 2.6.18 http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.4.0rc3 http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.0rc3.tar.gz Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LIN

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.11.tar.gz

2011-06-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
istic * Network timeouts for mirrored write requests are now always enforced, no longer only when the socket is congested http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.3.11 http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.11.tar.gz http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.3.11/ Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.0rc4.tar.gz

2011-07-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
es the "--" separator; compatibility aliases with the old calling conventions; now it is compatible with the pre 8.4 way of calling. http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.4.0rc4 http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.0rc4.tar.gz -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Y

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.0rc4.tar.gz

2011-07-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2011, 17:22:09 schrieb Gianluca Cecchi: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Philipp Reisner > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is intended to be the final RC. It is inteded to build and work > > on RHEL 5.x (where x >= 3), RHEL 6.x, SE

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.0rc4.tar.gz

2011-07-08 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2011, 18:04:33 schrieb Rick Cone: > I had heard that the activity log is larger on 8.4. If so, what is its max > size? > Hi Rick, The AL in 8.4 still uses the same disk space, but it can hold up to 6433 entries. (Used to be 3833) Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philip

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.0.tar.gz

2011-07-18 Thread Philipp Reisner
r: minor-count, ko-count, al-extents, c-plan-ahead, c-fill-target, c-min-rate, use-rle, on-io-error http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.4.0/ http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.4.0 http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.0.tar.gz Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LIN

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.4 manpage in DRBD User's Guide

2011-08-16 Thread Philipp Reisner
contain these files. > When will these files be released? They get generated by the build-process. Use "make doc" Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LI

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.12rc1.tar.gz

2011-10-10 Thread Philipp Reisner
cking devices by the new disk-timeout option http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.12rc1.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=commit;h=drbd-8.3.12rc1 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 :

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.12.tar.gz

2011-10-28 Thread Philipp Reisner
es by the new disk-timeout option http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.12.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.3.12 http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.3.12/ Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax:

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.1rc1.tar.gz

2011-12-01 Thread Philipp Reisner
: new keyword "read-balance" http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.1rc1.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.4.1rc1 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.lin

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.1rc2.tar.gz

2011-12-13 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Relative to rc1 one ugly bug in the read load balancing code was discovered. Local retry of read requests that where scheduled to the peer but failed there was broken. Other than that we were only able to discover and fix bugs that have been in DRBD since ever. Very rare race conditions

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.1.tar.gz

2011-12-20 Thread Philipp Reisner
it.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.1.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.4.1 http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.4.1/ Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(

Re: [DRBD-user] Quick heads-up in case you see us disappearing from the list (was Re: Switch from MD to DRBD)

2012-03-22 Thread Philipp Reisner
community to what it is today. Any questions or suggestions are greatly appreciated! - Please contact us: off...@linbit.com Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 8.4.1 turning off disk-barrier and disk-flushes problem

2012-04-03 Thread Philipp Reisner
It got fixed with this commit: http://git.drbd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=commit;h=d91afe741ff1886c5a543ed343aab8114c563c53 Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DR

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.13rc1.tar.gz

2012-04-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
usual" BIOs. * Enforce the disk-timeout option also on meta-data IO operations http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.13rc1.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/drbd-8.3.13rc1 Best, Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availabi

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.13rc2.tar.gz

2012-04-30 Thread Philipp Reisner
e the disk-timeout option also on meta-data IO operations http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.13rc2.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/drbd-8.3.13rc2 Best, Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-81782

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.13.tar.gz

2012-05-07 Thread Philipp Reisner
mplemented stable bitmap pages when we do a full write out of the bitmap http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.13.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/drbd-8.3.13 http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.3.13/ Best regards, Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisn

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.13.tar.gz

2012-05-07 Thread Philipp Reisner
om|212.69.161.111|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden > 2012-05-07 14:57:58 ERROR 403: Forbidden. > Sorry about that. Permissions fixed. Best regards, Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-817

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.2rc1.tar.gz

2012-08-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, A release in the 8.4 branch is really overdue. Please try it out, and verify that you preferred 8.4 bug has been fixed in the meantime. Please note: This is a release candidate, not intended for production. Please help with testing! 8.4.2rc1 (api:genl1/proto:86-100) * Fixed a write

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.2rc1.tar.gz

2012-08-13 Thread Philipp Reisner
Server at oss.linbit.com Port 80 > > Thanks in advanced: Akos > > p.s. > All the other tar.gz can be downloaded from : http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/ > > On 08/06/12 19:45, Philipp Reisner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A release in the 8.4 branch is really overdue

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.2rc2.tar.gz

2012-08-23 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, after countless hours of testing, bug hunting and fixing we are proud to present the result of our effort. Please note: This is a release candidate, not intended for production. Please help with testing! 8.4.2rc2 (api:genl1/proto:86-100) * Complete requests that reached completion

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 8.4.2rc2 (git) bugs

2012-08-30 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012, 18:27:08 schrieb Dzianis Kahanovich: > 1) drbdadm put "--wait-after-sb=yes" to drbdsetup, but drbdsetup want > "--wait-after-sb" - wait-con-int command failed; Thanks! Will get fixed after rc3. > > 2) Building module: detecting security_netlink_recv > (COMPAT_HAVE_S

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.2rc3.tar.gz

2012-08-30 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, The test clusters are running hot, but it is really looking good now. The new request code that was backported from the 9 branch, caused a few bugs, but I think that is sorted out now. Please give it a try and try to break it. We want to hear from you before September 6! Please note: This is

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 8.4.2rc2 (git) bugs

2012-08-31 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Donnerstag, 30. August 2012, 17:15:20 schrieb Philipp Reisner: > Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012, 18:27:08 schrieb Dzianis Kahanovich: > > 1) drbdadm put "--wait-after-sb=yes" to drbdsetup, but drbdsetup want > > "--wait-after-sb" - wait-con-int command failed

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 8.4.2rc2 (git) bugs

2012-09-03 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Freitag, 31. August 2012, 12:51:43 schrieb Dzianis Kahanovich: > Philipp Reisner написал: > >> 2) Building module: detecting security_netlink_recv > >> (COMPAT_HAVE_SECURITY_NETLINK_RECV defined) false positive. > > > > On what kernel? (Version and dist flavou

Re: [DRBD-user] [Drbd-dev] [PATCH] drbd: use list_move_tail instead of list_del/list_add_tail

2012-09-05 Thread Philipp Reisner
Thanks, applied. Best regards, Phil > From: Wei Yongjun > > Using list_move_tail() instead of list_del() + list_add_tail(). > > spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem. > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun > --- > drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.2.tar.gz

2012-09-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
t/drbd-8.4.2/ http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.2.tar.gz http://git.drbd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/drbd-8.4.2 best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.14rc1.tar.gz

2012-10-04 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, This is the preparation for the last planed 8.3.x release. -- Getting the fixes out of the door, that have accumulated over the last 5 month. As usual: Please help testing this release candidate, and report any regressions or bugs you can find! Please note: This is a release candidate, not i

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.14rc2.tar.gz

2012-10-12 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, This is a call for all interested parties to participate in release candidate testing! In case you find any regression (or old bug) please let us know before October 19. Please note: This is a release candidate, not intended for production. 8.3.14rc2 (api:88/proto:86-97) * Fixed a

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.14.tar.gz

2012-10-19 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Besides bug-fixes this release brings support for FLUSH/FUA for the layers that get stacked on top of DRBD. Talking of bugs of previous releases: It needs to be pointed out that as the barrier-support was removed in upstream kernel (2.6.36), it was no longer save to run DRBD in protoco

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre1.tar.gz

2012-12-03 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, After 18 month of work we are happy that we finished the groundwork for the next generation of DRBD. In this development effort we moved all connection related attributes from the resource object to a dedicated connection object. A resource can have multiple connections from now on. The adva

Re: [DRBD-user] 8.4 (git): waiting

2012-12-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi Dzianis, Thanks for pointing this out. This commit fixes that: http://git.drbd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=commitdiff;h=200a2b0fbdf5996114df4f2b02311be5d6b2a0ae;hp=b87d597100f0046e9dcb14f8e9e580f8c5a75e7b BTW, may I ask you particular reason to not use 8.4.2, but git-head? Best regards,

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.15rc1.tar.gz

2012-12-11 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Although there is a fix for a regression that was introduced with 8.3.12, the real trigger for this DRBD release, was the fact that Linux-3.7 no longer exports a symbol that was used by the out-of-tree DRBD. As usual: Please help testing this release candidate, and report any bugs you can fi

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.15.tar.gz

2012-12-18 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, The rc-week was very quite. The important "feature" of this release is that it can be built with Linux-3.7. On the side of bug fixes, a few very exotic issues where identified and fixed. In case you operate a huge installation of hundreds or thousands of nodes, you will for sure profit from t

Re: [DRBD-user] Kernel Panic - DRBD 8.4

2012-12-20 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi Amit, This is a know bug. http://git.drbd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=drbd-8.4.git;a=commit;h=04be124e812093c003e6a93da549ee7dda0cc443 The fix was released with 8.4.2. Please use the latest minor release. Best, Phil > Hi All, > > I am new to DRBD and have been unable to run a full setup at the momen

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.3rc1.tar.gz

2013-01-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, With this release we have three important improvements to the activity log: 1 Starting with 8.4.3 the activity log has a variable size on disk (before it was fixed 32KiByte). -> The limitation of 6433 on the al-extents option is no longer. 2 The activity log can be organised as

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.3.tar.gz

2013-02-05 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, With this release we have three important improvements to the activity log: 1 Starting with 8.4.3 the activity log has a variable size on disk (before it was fixed 32KiByte). -> The limitation of 6433 on the al-extents option is no longer. 2 The activity log can be organised as

Re: [DRBD-user] [PATCH] drbd: add module_put() on error path in drbd_proc_open()

2013-03-04 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi Alexey, Thanks a lot! I have put it into our tree. http://git.drbd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=drbd-8.4.git I intend to get it into the 3.10 merge window. Best, Phil > If single_open() fails in drbd_proc_open(), module refcount is left > incremented. The patch adds module_put() on the error path. > >

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 9 differrent replication protocol with 3 nodes

2013-04-05 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 3. April 2013, 22:00:09 schrieb Cristian Mammoli: > Hi, I'm reading the user guide for drbd 9. It's clear how to setup a 3 > node mesh, however I didn't understand how to use different replication > protocols between hosts. > This is the classic scenario with 2 cluster nodes and 1 off-

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd 9 differrent replication protocol with 3 nodes

2013-04-08 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Sonntag, 7. April 2013, 17:02:20 schrieb Cristian Mammoli: > Il 05/04/2013 11:53, Philipp Reisner ha scritto: > > Yes. > > > > With the prerelease2 it will be also possible to use the same port > > for all connections: > > > > connection { > >

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre2.tar.gz

2013-04-15 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, We want to share our progress with the world. This is not yet a release candidate, but it is a considerably step further than the pre1 release. Resync decisions should work by now for the multiple connection world of drbd9. The configuration file got the new keyword "connection-mesh" for con

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre3.tar.gz

2013-04-30 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, A rather ugly bug slipped into the 9.0.0pre2 release that caused all secondary nodes to outdate them selfs when a primary was demoted to secondary. This bug and many many more where fixed in those two weeks. Establishing connections works very well now, also to multiple peers at a time. Resy

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre4.tar.gz

2013-05-31 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, This is rather a quick notify, that we have found and fixed some more bugs. ... It is still work in progress, but every day it gets more exciting to explore the new features of drbd9. 9.0.0pre4 (api:genl1/proto:86-110) * Fixes in the area of cluster wide commits * Fixes in the are

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre5.tar.gz

2013-07-12 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, There are a few areas that are not finished, e.g. the init-script, or the pacemake integration script. Other that that, please report bugs to one of the mailing list as you find them! -- The number of known bugs we have here to work on is going down quickly. 9.0.0pre5 (api:genl1/proto:86-110

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre6.tar.gz & drbd-8.3.16rc1.tar.gz

2013-08-14 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, this is a *double release* day. On the drbd-9 side great progress was made since the pre5 release. I ask everybody interested in drbd9 to check it out and report any issues found back to us. 9.0.0pre6 (api:genl1/proto:86-110) * Fixed the wait-[connect|sync] drbdadm commands. Now t

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.4rc1.tar.gz

2013-08-16 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, And here is the 8.4.4rc1. It mainly contains of fixes. The only new feature the online reshaping of the AL-layout. BTW, since there are still people installing drbd-8.3 on new systems. DRBD-8.4 gives you more performance. See this blog post: http://blogs.linbit.com/p/469/843-random-writes-fas

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.16.tar.gz

2013-09-20 Thread Philipp Reisner
ery slow resync rates * don't let application IO throttle resync to a stall http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.3.15/ http://git.drbd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/drbd-8.3.16 http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.16.tar.gz Best, Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBI

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.4rc2.tar.gz

2013-09-27 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Most outstanding of the patches that landed in the repository since rc1 is: Support for DISCARD requests (in SCSI speak: unmap; ATA speak: trim). This is important for use on SSDs or on thinly provisioned storage. This is a release candidate. Please help testing. 8.4.4rc2 (api:genl1/proto:86

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.4.tar.gz

2013-10-11 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Apart from many fixes to the most outstanding new feature of this release is Support for DISCARD requests (in SCSI speak: unmap; ATA speak: trim). This is important for use on SSDs or on thinly provisioned storage. 8.4.4 (api:genl1/proto:86-101) * Changes from 8.3.16 * fix poten

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre7.tar.gz

2013-12-22 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Since the last pre-release DRBD9 got a very long way. Since the last pre-release we developed an automated test suite for DRBD9. This new test suite turned out to be a reliable source of DRBD9 bugs. We have not yet emptied this pool of known bugs, therefore we did not feel the need for a new p

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre8.tar.gz

2014-02-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, The reason for this release is, to have a base drbd for drbdmanage. Please look at its announcement e-mail for further information. Some bugs where fixed. Right now our TODO-lists still have sufficient known bugs to keep us busy. -- This release does come without request for sending us bug r

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre9.tar.gz

2014-03-07 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, This release is synchronized with the drbdmanage release again. Lots of bugs fixed, though one important update to the "Weak" logic did not made it into this release. For sure the most outstanding change for you is, that the user- space tools are no longer part of the kernel driver package.

Re: [DRBD-user] 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 kernel with drbd hangs (was: mkfs hangs)

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
s. OTOH Fedora people help me to shake out bugs, before the causing patches arrive in the vanilla kernel. Nice. Could you please provide feedback, if this patch (applies to drbd-0.7.15) fixes the problem for you ? -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50

Re: [DRBD-user] pre-release 0.8

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 19:19 schrieb leonardo rodrigues de mello: > Hi Philipp Reisner, > > I had saw in cvs messages that you are preparing for the 0.8 > pre-release, could you tell me when it will happen ? > No date, but it is true that it will happen soon. [ 'Soon&#x

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd solution for distant sites ? (4MB line)

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
"risks" of protocol A] For such a setup with limited bandwith link increasing the sndbuf-size improves the "interactiveness" of writes on the primary node. PS: Please report your experiences afterwards, Thanks! -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43

[DRBD-user] First success of OCFS2 on DRBD8

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
! -philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, Austriahttp://www.linbit.com : [ Part 2, Text/X-DIFF (Name: "linux-2.6.16-rc6.diff"

Re: [DRBD-user] About drbd8 conf

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Please have a look at the documented sample configuration file shipped in the tarball. It is located in the script directory. A few things have changed... -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd hanging on file write

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
second node offline. And when the other node is online, and DRBD is connected, then everything is fine ? [ Slowly I am developing an antipathy against these FC4 kernels ] -Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH

Re: [DRBD-user] degr-wfc-timeout - when is this value used?

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
ly the patch, and it will be released with 0.7.16. Thanks for pointing such issues out! -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, Austriahttp:

Re: [DRBD-user] degr-wfc-timeout - when is this value used?

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
ly the patch, and it will be released with 0.7.16. Thanks for pointing such issues out! -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, Austriahttp:

Re: [DRBD-user] mkfs hangs with lastest drbd branch build and FC4 kernel

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
VN version string from /proc/drbd loud to your room-mates that you loaded the right module ? In case you have, please provide more information which processes are hanging around where. Use 'ps -axo pid,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN -o comm' and report all drbd_ threads, the mkfs command and al

Re: [DRBD-user] Problem with drbd v8 - cannot create new device

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
ing does not work in xen. Try the following 1) crate the metadata 1a) dump it to some file 2) reboot the virtual machine 3) try to attach 3a) dump it to some file NB external or internal meta data ? -Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Infor

Re: [DRBD-user] Problem with drbd v8 - cannot create new device

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 17:50 schrieb Michael Paesold: > Michael Paesold wrote: > > Philipp Reisner wrote: > >> Am Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 17:18 schrieb Michael Paesold: > >> > I want to run drbd trunk r2131 on 2.6.16.1 (with Xen 3). The problem > >> >

Re: [DRBD-user] [patch] fix ioctl32 wrapper for 0.8pre2

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
t every OOPS you can catch. Although they might not look interesting to you, they are for me and Lars. -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunn

Re: [DRBD-user] [patch] Wait for all DRBD devices to be registered with udev

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
t; addresses this issue by ensuring every device is configured before > continuing execution. > Applied to the 0.7-branch. -philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292

Re: [DRBD-user] Problem with drbd v8 - cannot create new device

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2006 19:00 schrieb Michael Paesold: > Philipp Reisner wrote: > > Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 17:50 schrieb Michael Paesold: > > > Using internal meta-data results in a kernel oops. Using both the > > > regular > > > 2.6.9 as well as the Xe

Re: [DRBD-user] kernel oops drbd 8.0_pre2 on Fedora Core 5 and RHEL4

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Ok, the whole issues has is related to using device-mapper / lvm. SVN trunk already has a patch that *should* fix the issues, but I have not yet tested it. Will test it tomorrow. -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information

Re: [DRBD-user] kernel oops drbd 8.0_pre2 on Fedora Core 5 and RHEL4

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
> (looking further up into the code, unless philip finds it first ;-) ) At that time I usually sleep ;) -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vie

Re: [DRBD-user] kernel oops drbd 8.0_pre2 on Fedora Core 5 and RHEL4

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
that there somewhere in the code thet should be a call do drbd_md_sync(). After a second there md_sync_timer expired and a fallback mechanism called drbd_md_sync(). Before drbd-8.0 becomes stable we should find all those missing calls to drbd_md_sync(). The "damage" of the bug was corrected by

Re: [DRBD-user] debian source patch

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
/control.modules.in (revision 2181) > +++ debian/control.modules.in (working copy) > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -Source: drbd > +Source: drbd8 > Section: misc > Priority: extra > Maintainer: David Krovich > > > It fixes building of the packages. ACK. -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner

Re: [DRBD-user] usage.drbd.org / drbdadm_usage_cnt.c

2014-05-29 Thread Philipp Reisner
got all of your tries... (but this does not matter all to much...) Having the comment in drbd.conf is a good suggestion, will do that... -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Sch

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.5.tar.gz AND drbd-utils-8.9.0.tar.gz

2014-06-10 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, This is the first release since we have split the drbd-utils code off into a dedicated repository. The advantage is that we have one drbd-utils package that works with different versions of the drbd-module (drbd driver). I am referring here to different minor versions like 8.4.4 and

[DRBD-user] drbd-utils-8.9.1.tar.gz

2014-08-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, With this utils only release mainly the regressions from the repository split got fixed. On the other hand the systemd service file is of course for those who already deploy RHEL7 systems. 8.9.1 * add DRBD systemd service * new configuration options socket-check-timeout and csums

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0pre10.tar.gz & drbd-utils-8.9.2rc1.tar.gz

2014-09-19 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, in drbd-utils a number of fixes got queued up, so it is time to start a new release cycle of it. Last not least is has a number of important fixes in the drbd-9 user-space parts. On the kernel driver side, it is more than 6 month ago, since the last pre release. A lot was done in the meantime

Re: [DRBD-user] strange drbd bug

2014-10-20 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, we have the impression this unveils a bug in DRBD. It might be triggered if: A resource with multiple volumes AND ko-count >=1 AND a write request triggers the timeout (ko-count * timeout) then a wrong state transition confuses DRBD's state handling. The fix: diff --git a/drbd/drbd_

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-23 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 18:48:38 schrieb Meij, Henk: > Hello All, new to the list but not drbd. We currently run a few very small > drbd setups. > > > > We are planning on moving our "research computing storage" to drbd. This > would be 4 integrated server/storage modules grouped in 2 d

Re: [DRBD-user] drbd storage size

2014-10-23 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2014, 08:55:03 schrieb Digimer: > On 23/10/14 04:00 AM, Philipp Reisner wrote: > > 2a) Initialize both backend devices to a known state. > > > > I.e. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=$((1024*1024)) oflag=direct > > Question; > >

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0rc1.tar.gz & drbd-utils-8.9.2rc2.tar.gz

2015-01-20 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, In the last months the focus on the kernel side was to get it into shape to form a usable base for drbdmanage and the OpenStack cinder driver for drbd. It is time to share the results of this work with a wider audience. We are testing here mainly on CentOS 6 VMs. Mirroring between up to 8 n

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0rc2.tar.gz & drbd-utils-8.9.2rc3.tar.gz

2015-03-09 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, The focus for this release was to create a second transport for DRBD. So far DRBD was capable of using networking infrastructure that provides a BSD sockets API. That is basically: TCP/IP (over Ethernet networks). The new transport is called "RDMA". It allows to use DRBD on networking infrast

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.6rc1.tar.gz AND drbd-utils-8.9.2rc4.tar.gz

2015-03-26 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, It really got time to push an drbd-8.4 release out. Over the course over the last 9 month (yes, 8.4.5 is already nine month old), no major issues where discovered. The major driving force in this time period are customers that want to see more performance on their latest generation SSDs. The

[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.6.tar.gz AND drbd-utils-8.9.2.tar.gz

2015-04-07 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, I am proud to announce the availability of drbd-8.4.6 and the drbd-utils-8.9.2 packages. One reason to be proud are some performance improvements, that are useful for users of fast SSDs. The other reason to be proud that this release brings two new commands to the drbd-8.4 userspace: drbds

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.0.0rc3.tar.gz & drbd-utils-8.9.3rc1.tar.gz

2015-05-13 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, with this drbd-9.0 release we made great progress. First to mention, the comparability with drbd-8.4 was improved a lot. Connecting to 8.4 have either side primary, resync etc, should work now. I.e. all the things necessary for performing a rolling upgrade. A lot of time and effort was put in

[DRBD-user] Upcoming presentations on DRBD9 & drbdmanage & Cinder

2015-07-28 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, Dublin in Ireland is not far away if you happen to be based in Europe, you may like to visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-europe/program/schedule For the Asia Pacific region, it is time to vote before July 30 at 11:59pm PT. Please follow this link and help that it will

Re: [DRBD-user] [Questions] Many questions about DRBD

2015-08-31 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Mittwoch, 26. August 2015, 10:36:16 schrieb 顾政: > Hi guys, > > I am a new comer to DRBD, as we want to use drbd for data backup, and I > have some questions about drbd, so hope you guys can help me a lot. > > 1. Does drbd support rdma for IB (InfiniBand)? as we need to use IB for > high perfor

Re: [DRBD-user] 回复: [Questions] Many questions about DRBD

2015-09-01 Thread Philipp Reisner
Am Dienstag, 1. September 2015, 09:38:18 schrieben Sie: > Hi Philipp, > > > Thanks very much for such valuable response, it helps me a lot. > > > BTW, is the proprietary add-on module for IB (wit rdma) from LINBIT a open > source or sold with LINBIT production? > Could you please provide some >

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