[CentOS] DRBD question.

Tue Mar 18 21:57:04 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

Steve Campbell wrote:
> 
> 
> Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:40 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote:
>>  
>>> I'm going to have to be a little vague on this one, but hope I 
>>> provide enough to make the question clear. I'm not doing the work on 
>>> this server, a co-worker is, but I said I would ask for him.
>>>
>>> He is trying to get DRBD installed. He's using Centos 5.1 and the yum 
>>> repos, but is getting problems with things like the kernel, drbd.so, 
>>> and the likes. All install fine, but I'm not sure he is getting the 
>>> proper kernel with the drbd stuff. Almost sounds like he needs a dev 
>>> rpm from somewhere because drbd.so isn't on the machine after 
>>> installing the RPMs. (Can't do the insmod drbd.so).
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a quick and easy(?) step by step to get it 
>>> installed?     
>> Have you read the wiki : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Ha-Drbd  ?
>>
>>  
>>> He'll figure out the config if he can get it installed properly. 
>>> Right now, he's running from source OK, but you all know the 
>>> arguements for source versus rpm.
>>>     
>> Everything is included in the Extras repositories .. no need to compile
>> from source
>>  
>>> Thanks for any help. I'll try and get caught up on what he's doing to 
>>> better answer any questions presented.
>>>     
> 
> A quick check with him this morning while he was rushing to take a call 
> from the hospital - He says the drbd8.2 rpm has conflicts when trying to 
> yum install.

if you are already running drbd-0.7.2x on centos-4 then you must upgrade 
to drbd82 ...

http://fghaas.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/step-by-step-upgrade-from-drbd-07-to-drbd-8/

If you are installing on centos-5 there should not be any "conflicts"




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