Hi,
Am 02.02.22 um 16:10 schrieb Wouter de Geus:
Hi folks,
I've been running drbd 8.4 between 2 Xen nodes like a charm since ~2014.
One node just had its hardware upgraded, so I was looking into upgrading drbd
as well.
Just built the latest longterm kernel which I'm trying this against - 5.15.19.
While it seems like 8.4->9.0 is a valid strategy, OR moving both (with
downtime) to 9.$latest it seems like this is cumbersome.
Currently I'm happily using the 8.4.x versions that are in mainline, so my
first question:
Do you have plans to upgrade mainline to v9, and when you do, will that be a
new option or replace the old one?
We do, in fact we have been talking about upstreaming v9 for quite some
time. Alas, as it turns out, it would be an insane amount of work
because the git histories of the various repositories are... interesting
at times. Kind of a long story, but you can take my word for it – it's
not easy.
That being said, we are still planning on it, it's just pretty far back
in our backlog.
Since v9 "evolved" from v8 naturally (it is even backwards compatible),
an upstream version of v9 would very likely just replace v8.
Next: I can't get the sources compiled. Stood upside down to make `spatch`
available since the patch service gave me a 400 Bad Request
for 9.0.32, but that then crashes with: cat:
drbd-kernel-compat/patches/claim_disk__no_link__no_claim.patch: No such file or
directory
For 9.1.5 I run into this one:
CC [M] /usr/src/drbd-9.1.5/drbd/drbd_req.o
/usr/src/drbd-9.1.5/drbd/drbd_req.c: In function
'remote_due_to_read_balancing':
/usr/src/drbd-9.1.5/drbd/drbd_req.c:1218:66: error: 'struct request_queue'
has no member named 'backing_dev_info'
1218 | bdi =&
device->ldev->backing_bdev->bd_disk->queue->backing_dev_info;
| ^~
scripts/Makefile.build:277: recipe for target
'/usr/src/drbd-9.1.5/drbd/drbd_req.o' failed
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/drbd-9.1.5/drbd/drbd_req.o] Error 1
Unfortunately 5.15.x is a very recent kernel, and we cannot guarantee
compatibility with all mainline kernels. We try very hard to stay
compatible with commonly used distribution kernels (which is already
well over 100!). We also try – a little bit less hard – to be compatible
with the latest mainline kernel, but since practically no-one would pay
us for that it's just not worth prioritizing it.
The latest kernel that we verifiably support is 5.14.0-1.7.1.el9 from
the recent RHEL9 beta release. A mainline 5.14 *probably* also works,
but again, no guarantees.
Any suggestions, or should I stick with 8.4 and make my life easier?
A shameless plug at this point: you can become a LINBIT customer, which
would certainly make your life easier in this regard :)
We offer pre-built packages for our customers, and while we don't
officially support 5.15 yet, maybe we would be able to make something
happen if there is explicit demand.
Regards,
Wouter.
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Hope this helps.
Regards,
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Christoph Böhmwalder
LINBIT | Keeping the Digital World Running
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