Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 8.0 life cycle

2021-08-26 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 03:34:58PM -0700, Paul D. O'Rorke wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been running a DRDB-8 simple 3 node disaster recovery set up of > libvirt VMs for a number of years and have been very happy with it.   Our > needs are simple, 2 servers on Protocol C, each running a handful of V

Re: [DRBD-user] protocol C replication - unexpected behaviour

2021-08-26 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 11:53:44PM +0200, Janusz Jaskiewicz wrote: > Hello. > > I'm experimenting a bit with DRBD in a cluster managed by Pacemaker. > It's a two node, active-passive cluster and the service that I'm > trying to put in the cluster writes to the file system. > The service manages ma

Re: [DRBD-user] drbdadm attach - how to allow non-exclusive access ?

2021-08-26 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 07:07:41AM +0100, TJ wrote: > I've got a rather unique scenario and need to allow non-exclusive > read-only opening of the drbd device on the Secondary. > Then I thought to use a device-mapper COW snapshot - so the underlying > drbd device is never changed but the snapshot

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 8.0 life cycle

2021-08-26 Thread Michael Hierweck
Hi Lars, On 26.08.21 15:03, Lars Ellenberg wrote: As we put on our web page at https://linbit.com/solutions-rfq/ DRBD 8 < 8.4 is end of life. DRBD 8.4 has left "active maintenance" years ago, but needs to be supported while existing customers pay for existing deployments. The "relevant" platfo

Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD 8.0 life cycle

2021-08-26 Thread Paul D. O'Rorke
Thanks Lars, DRBD 9 does everything DRBD 8 does. Some things it does better. And it can do some things you may not (yet) need. I went ahead and did the reading...  ;-)   I will move to DRBD9. You can use DRBD 9 the same way you used DRBD 8, if you want to. (some config options have been rena