DRBD source dropped from Debian unstable

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:05:00 +0200

OK, not really... DRBD 8.3.7 is an official part of the Linux kernel since 2.6.33, and thanks to Dann Frazier we also have a backport of that patch in Debian's 2.6.32 kernel as well.

Until yesterday, the DRBD source package in Debian built a -utils and a -source package, the latter was now dropped. From now on, users no longer need to recompile the DRBD module after a kernel upgrade.

DRBD in Debian with Linux 2.6.25

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:35:00 +0200

The DRBD packages in Debian have been a bit outdated until yesterday, neither the package in unstable (8.0 branch) nor the package in experimental (8.2 branch) could be built against Linux 2.6.25. Three bugs have been filed against the DRBD packages because of that problem, which was fixed in newer upstream releases already.

After Philipp Hug accepted my offer to co-maintain the DRBD packages in Debian, I uploaded DRBD 8.0.12-1 to unstable and 8.2.6-1 to experimental. Both packages are working fine with Linux 2.6.25.

Update: Linux 2.6.26 again broke DRBD, 8.0.13-1 from unstable has a fix. Linux 2.6.26 is targeted for lenny, hence I'll try to get a freeze exception.

Norbert Tretkowski - High Availability

DRBD source dropped from Debian unstable

DRBD in Debian with Linux 2.6.25