[DRBD-announce] drbd-0.7.16.tar.gz

[Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>]

0.7.16 (api:77/proto:74)
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 * DRBD no longer shrinks an consistent device if it gets connected to
   an smaller peer or attached to a smaller disk.
 * There was a bug related to the degr-wcf-timeout config option, it was
   never used in recent DRBD releases. Fixed.
 * Made DRBD work with Neil Brown's patch, that serializes recusive
   calls to generic_make_request(). FC4 included that patch in its
   later kernels.
 * Minor fixes to drbdadm
 * Compiles now also with Linux-2.6.16-rc1
 * Updates to documentation and example config file to make it more
   clear that we talk about byte/second and not bit/second.

   One could say this release happened to bring an end to all the
   'DBRD freezes on FC4 with the latest kernel' mails on the list ;)

Seriously, there was also a rather critical bug in the way DRBD
determines the size of its devices fixed. During normal operation
everything works as expected.
But when a disk crashes and you replace that one with a smaller one
accidentally, DRBD shrunk its device to the new constrains with
the past releases. 
Staring with this release DRBD will simply refuse to accept a too small
disk to a consistent degraded cluster node.

http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/0.7/drbd-0.7.16.tar.gz
http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-0.7.16
http://svn.drbd.org/drbd/tags/drbd-0.7.16

Philipp
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