Hi Troy, > Hello, > We are looking at puting drbd into SL5. I do not think our > packaging is ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested > before putting it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we want > to put it in SL 5.6. > > "DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability > clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a > dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1." > > It is already in atrpm's, and we are using atrpm's style of > packaging at this time. > > To test > > SL5 > ------- > yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install drbd > > or you can download rpm's by hand at > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/drbd/ > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/drbd/
I've been using drbd for linuxha.net clusters for many years and compile the drbd code from source on each new kernel release. Having this as part of a kernel module RPM will save that task, quite handy thank you. Michael. > Thanks > Troy Dawson > -- > __________________________________________________ > Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group > __________________________________________________ ------- End of Original Message -------
