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Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:59:06 +1100
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Hi Troy,

> Hello,
> We are looking at puting drbd into SL5.  I do not think our 
> packaging is ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested 
> before putting it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we want 
> to put it in SL 5.6.
> 
> "DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability
> clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a
> dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1."
> 
> It is already in atrpm's, and we are using atrpm's style of 
> packaging at this time.
> 
> To test
> 
> SL5
> -------
>        yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install drbd
> 
> or you can download rpm's by hand at
> 
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/drbd/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/drbd/

I've been using drbd for linuxha.net clusters for many years and compile the
drbd code from source on each new kernel release.

Having this as part of a kernel module RPM will save that task, quite handy
thank you.

Michael.

> Thanks
> Troy Dawson
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