DRBD backported (or not) to 2.6.32 in EL6 ?

fabian.arrotin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:54:32 +0000

As some of you already know it, DRBD is now (since kernel 2.6.33) part of the mainline/upstream kernel. Some were expecting RHEL6 to come with that kernel (used for Fedora 13). The latest RHEL6beta2 still comes with 2.6.32, which doesn’t include DRBD support. Of course we still don’t know what the ‘frozen’ RHEL6 kernel will be but on the other hand, we know that Red Hat quite often ‘backports’ modules from newer kernel into the RHEL kernel. What about DRBD ? At the time of writing this blog post, it seems still undecided, but you can follow the DRBD RFE on Upstream Bugzilla to get a clue, or even comment on it if you have a bugzilla account to make hear your voice. On the other hand, you can still be sure that even if DRBD isn’t part of EL6, CentOS will still ship it in the Extras repository, like for EL4/EL5 …

Following build status through Twitter …

fabian.arrotin — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:09:38 +0000

The other day, Russ pointed me/us to a cli client for Twitter : TTYter. Even if i’m not myself a Twitter (ab)user, I thought it would be funny to create a tweet that can be followed by those Twitter abusers and wanting to follow the build status of the RPMforge PPC rpm packages that I build. I’ve quickly modified my automated build scripts to post a build status after each build and you can follow it here : http://twitter.com/rpmppcbuilder . It would be nice also to have such stuff for other build machines as well … While i’m talking about those PPC packages, if you still have a PPC machine doing nothing and that you want to throw away, please redirect it to me instead (that can even be an IBM js2x blade that I would be able to have it hosted somewhere)

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DRBD backported (or not) to 2.6.32 in EL6 ?

Following build status through Twitter …