Messages in this thread | | | From | Philipp Reisner <> | Subject | Re: drbd: kernels 3.7 => 3.8 broken userspace compatibility | Date | Mon, 06 May 2013 11:34:58 +0200 |
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Am Montag, 6. Mai 2013, 09:59:08 schrieb Chris Boot: > Hi all, > > I upgraded from a 3.7.x kernel to a 3.8.x kernel on a test machine > running DRBD, and found myself unable to bring up my DRBD devices. I'm > using the 8.3.13 userspace tools as shipped in Debian Wheezy, which work > fine on the 3.7 kernel, but they appear to hang when using the 3.8 > kernel and cannot set up the device. > > The 3.8 kernel appears to introduce drbd 8.4.2 rather than the 8.3.13 > available in 3.7. > [...] > Even if the kernel did require new userspace tools, should there not be > some better mechanism to notify the user they must upgrade them before > things will work? At the moment all I see without strace is: > > # drbdadm attach r0 > DRBD module version: 8.4.2 > userland version: 8.3.13 > you should upgrade your drbd tools! ^^^^ This message is a clear hint, isn't it?
See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/9/103
Fitting user space tools are available since 2011. The new tools can deal with both interfaces.
Best, Phil
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