Recommended update for drbd

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(Last modified: 05SEP2006)

solutions Recommended update for drbd SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (289c124c66b7e620abf58a6e7f6cab0a)

Applies to

Package: drbd
drbd-kmp-bigsmp
drbd-kmp-debug
drbd-kmp-default
drbd-kmp-iseries64
drbd-kmp-ppc64
drbd-kmp-s390
drbd-kmp-smp
drbd-kmp-xen
drbd-kmp-xenpae
Product(s): SUSE SLES 10 for x86
SUSE SLES 10 for IPF
SUSE SLES 10 for IBM POWER
SUSE SLES 10 for IBM zSeries 64bit
SUSE SLES 10 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T

Release: 20060905
Obsoletes: none

Indications

All users of drbd should install this update.

Contraindications

None.

Description

This update addresses some hangs and stalls after reconnecting and rebooting, improves the resilence against memory deadlocks as well as performance with very fast backing devices.

Installation notes

This update is provided as a RPM packages that can easily be installed onto a running system by using this command:

rpm -Fvh drbd.rpm drbd-kmp-bigsmp.rpm drbd-kmp-debug.rpm drbd-kmp-default.rpm drbd-kmp-iseries64.rpm drbd-kmp-ppc64.rpm drbd-kmp-s390.rpm drbd-kmp-smp.rpm drbd-kmp-xen.rpm drbd-kmp-xenpae.rpm

links to download packages

Download Source Packages

Download the source code of the patches for maintained products.

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