On the version question, 8.3 ships DRBD 9.2.18 right now (that's what kmod-drbd.spec says on the 8.3 branch), so you'd be asking for a single point bump rather than a big jump. That probably helps you. Of your two links though, I think the netlink crash fix is a 9.2.17 entry, which would mean it's already in what you're running. The 9.2.19 line that looks closest to your crash to me is the connection-teardown races one rather than the AB-BA deadlock, since a deadlock would hang rather than throw a GPF, but you've read these traces far more closely than I have so correct me if that's backwards. I can't request a build myself, that's a @Team-Storage call rather than mine, though your post #13 timeline next to those changelog lines is a stronger case than most version-bump requests turn up with.

OK so that resource was a pain and did not want to give up, so I restarted the host. Migration is running good now.

Thanks for coming back to close it out. That's useful to know. So I was plenty wrong, as it was the XOSTOR licensing backend rather than the repo side I guessed at; those -32000 errors really don't give much away. For anyone landing here later: sounds like -32000 on XOSTOR creation can come from either end, a licensing/entitlement issue that support sorts, or a host not reaching the package repo, so both are worth checking. @alcoralcor, did support get yours sorted too, or is yours still the repodata / repo-reachability one? Glad you're unblocked either way.

Yes, there's a weird issue when using both XOSTOR and HA, probably due to the HA mechanism itself. @Team-Storage is on it

@Mathieu-L linstor n l was included in my original post. All nodes were updated to May 2026 Security and Maintenance Updates for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS, all nodes were restarted. May 2026 Updates #2 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS was released, and a couple days later I installed on all hosts. No host restarted. When xen04 was restarted, that is when this issue happened. I had used systemctl restart linstor-controller here (https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/105309) to restart the controller.

@dthenot said: @ccooke Hello, You should be able to make the XOSTOR SR work again if you update sm and sm-fairlock on the other hosts. yum update sm sm-fairlock Then you should be able to re-plug the SR on the master and proceed with the RPU. Hello, Had the same problem, the command resolved the issue. It needs to be run on every host. Everything is working fine again. However, I had to complete the pool update manually.

Different use cases: Ceph is better with more hosts (at least 6 or 7 minimum) while XOSTOR is better between 3 to 7/8. We might have better Ceph support in the future for large clusters.

And to really round this out, the MTBF for any of these is in the millions of hours (1.2-3M), that's a use time of 136.968 - 342.46 years respectively. Basically, if a drive dies, just replace it no matter what, but in the end the reliability of these drives is meant to outlast all of us. Unless you actually need some specific function provided in some form-factor or model, don't bother.

@tmnguyen You can open a support ticket and request that we reactivate your XOSTOR trial licenses to match your existing XOA trial.

@ronan-a Thanks

@irtaza9 it scans all the VDI's on the SR to see if something has changed, if there's a need for coalesce and so on. I dont think it will be a big issue if you increase the auto-scan-interval value to lets say 5 minutes (300 seconds), but do remember, that everything regarding the VDI's on the SR will take up to 5 minutes to update, as well as triggering coalesce after removing snapshots.

That worked; thank you!!!

@TestForEcho No ETA for now. Even before supporting QCOW2 on LINSTOR, we have several points to robustify (HA performance, potential race conditions, etc.). Regarding other important points: Supporting volumes larger than 2TB has significant impacts on synchronization, RAM usage, coalesce, etc. We need to find a way to cope with these changes. The coalesce algorithm should be changed to no longer depend on the write speed to the SR in order to prevent potential coalesce interruptions; this is even more crucial for LINSTOR. The coalesce behavior is not exactly the same for QCOW2, and we believe that currently this could negatively impact the API impl in the case of LINSTOR. In short: QCOW2 has led to changes that require a long-term investment in several topics before even considering supporting this format on XOSTOR.

You can manually install XOSTOR yes.

@bdenv-r are you trying XOSTOR on 8.2 or 8.3 ? had many problem of performance and tap-drive locking my VDIs on 8.2 xostor would like to know if 8.3 xostor still have issues

@olivierlambert Thanks !

Hello, @DustinB The https://vates.tech/xostor/ says: The maximum size of any single Virtual Disk Image (VDI) will always be limited by the smallest disk in your cluster. But in this case, maybe it can be stored in the "2TB disks" ? Maybe others can answer, i didn't test it.

Hello, I tried on a new pool. a little different scenario since i don't create xostor for now, on my previous example, i tried to add a node as replacement of an existing one.. I just run the install script only on node 1. When i try make node2 join the pool, i reproduce the incompatible sm error i got previously. The things which is "bizarre", is i don't have the license issue i got on Xen-orchestra. ( maybe it was finally not related ? ) Here is the complete logs. pool.mergeInto { "sources": [ "17510fe0-db23-9414-f3df-2941bd34f8dc" ], "target": "cc91fcdc-c7a8-a44c-65b3-a76dced49252", "force": true } { "code": "POOL_JOINING_SM_FEATURES_INCOMPATIBLE", "params": [ "OpaqueRef:090b8da1-9654-066c-84f9-7ab15cb101fd", "" ], "call": { "duration": 1061, "method": "pool.join_force", "params": [ "* session id *", "<MASTER_IP>", "root", "* obfuscated *" ] }, "message": "POOL_JOINING_SM_FEATURES_INCOMPATIBLE(OpaqueRef:090b8da1-9654-066c-84f9-7ab15cb101fd, )", "name": "XapiError", "stack": "XapiError: POOL_JOINING_SM_FEATURES_INCOMPATIBLE(OpaqueRef:090b8da1-9654-066c-84f9-7ab15cb101fd, ) at Function.wrap (file:///etc/xen-orchestra/packages/xen-api/_XapiError.mjs:16:12) at file:///etc/xen-orchestra/packages/xen-api/transports/json-rpc.mjs:38:21 at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:60:5) at processImmediate (node:internal/timers:454:9) at process.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)" }```