Comments on: Step-by-step upgrade from DRBD 0.7 to DRBD 8 http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/step-by-step-upgrade-from-drbd-07-to-drbd-8/ Linux, DRBD, and other stuff of interest Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:24:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Florian Haas http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/step-by-step-upgrade-from-drbd-07-to-drbd-8/#comment-1400 Florian Haas Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:27:04 +0000 http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/step-by-step-upgrade-from-drbd-07-to-drbd-8/#comment-1400 You are correct. The reference to internal metadata was a leftover from an earlier version of this post, which detailed that you had to handle external metadata differently. As of DRBD 8.0.7, the steps for meta data conversion are identical regardless of whether you are using external or internal metadata. Fixed in text. Thanks. You are correct. The reference to internal metadata was a leftover from an earlier version of this post, which detailed that you had to handle external metadata differently. As of DRBD 8.0.7, the steps for meta data conversion are identical regardless of whether you are using external or internal metadata.

Fixed in text. Thanks.

]]> By: Hexa http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/step-by-step-upgrade-from-drbd-07-to-drbd-8/#comment-1399 Hexa Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:06:44 +0000 http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/step-by-step-upgrade-from-drbd-07-to-drbd-8/#comment-1399 "After you have installed your new packages, for every configured resource that uses internal meta data (meta-disk internal), issue this command:" This is only haf of the truth. Even external metadata disks need to have metadata converted to 0.8 format. “After you have installed your new packages, for every configured resource that uses internal meta data (meta-disk internal), issue this command:”
This is only haf of the truth. Even external metadata disks need to have metadata converted to 0.8 format.

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