From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Philipp Reisner To: annoucements@drbd.org Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 23:13:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200409092313.44641.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Cc: Subject: [DRBD-announce] drbd-0.7.4.tar.gz Reply-To: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com List-Id: Announcements of new releases and critical bugs found List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi, I had the chance to install DRBD-0.7.3 on a SLES 8 system, and in the progress I discovered a quite bad problem with Linux-2.4.x and HIGHMEM. (This problem with HIGHMEM on Linux-2.4.x causes DRBD to drop connection and reconnect quite often, which in turn uncovered an other problem with caused the resync progress to starve). -- BTW, all this happenden because a paying custromer asked us to install drbd-0.7.x on the Linux-2.4.x based system. The other important fix is the support of devices bigger than 2TB. So, you want to upgrade to this release, if you have huge devices, or if you want to run on Linux-2.4.x with HIGHMEM. Otherwise, this release offers nothing new for you. 0.7.4 (api:76/proto:74) ----- * Fixed a critical bug with Linux-2.4.x and HIGHMEM! * Fixed a bug that only showed up with the HIGHMEM problem on Linux-2.4.x -> It caused the resync process to starve. * The drbd.spec file now creates /dev/drbd in the post-install stage. * Fixed support for more than 2TB storage. Now DRBD supports up to 3.99TB storage. It will also tell you, that it is not supported if you try to set up a bigger device. * Debian's build rules file now knows about the adjust_drbd_config_h.sh file. * DRBD_DISABLE_SENDPAGE available in drbd_config.h -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, Austria http://www.linbit.com :