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List:       drbd-user
Subject:    Re: [DRBD-user] URGENT Request for DRBD Developers
From:       "Art Age Software" <artagesw () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-05-24 2:40:14
Message-ID: d0860a1a0805231940ued79596vf49ebfd7ebbf904c () mail ! gmail ! com
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> You have to remember - DRBD is not officially part of RHEL, therefore is not
> part of the core CentOS repository. You are at the whims and desires of the
> package maintainers as to what is included in the extras/plus repos. You
> can't have the best of both worlds - Consistency and stability which comes
> from a tried and true package release schedule, plus non-standard packages
> tacked on the side. I run DRBD on RHEL with the understanding that i'm
> probably going to trip over somewhere when RedHat changes something and
> there are not new packages yet for DRBD (e.g. there was a lag of a day
> between the most current RHEL4 kernel and drbd82 kernel modules). That's a
> decision I made, and something I remember when it comes to making
> modifications - I face the same dilemma with XFS and OCFS2 which both have
> kernel dependencies. Once again, it's a calculated risk which I deal with.

Yes, point well-taken. I too am running RHEL-5 with DRBD coming out of
the CentOS Extras repository. I have kernel updates disabled in
yum.conf, and which allows me to safely update the kernel only when I
know there is a matching DRBD available as well.
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