Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 May 2009 12:14:09 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/16] DRBD: a block device for HA clusters |
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On Fri, 1 May 2009 09:14:25 -0400 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:15:54PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > > > Is it being used anywhere for anything? If so, where and what? > > > > It is used by many customers (thousands world-wide, I'm sure) to > > replicate block device data locally (to replace more expensive SANs > > while achieving higher availablity) or async/remotely (for disaster > > recovery). > > > > The code is rather stable, the first drbd deployments date back many > > years - drbd0.7 for example has been shipping with SLES10/9, and 0.6 > > with SLES8 already. The new drbd8 code is shipping on SLE11 and used > > also in combination with OCFS2. > > > > So we very much welcome the renewed and persistent interest of merging > > the code in mainline (once all serious issues are addressed). > > > > Even if in the long-term a merge with other raid implementations is > > pursued (which I'd welcome even more), the existence of so many > > deployments means we'll need the code for awhile still. > > I've not looked through the patchset, and it's a bit outside my > domain of expertise, but I can attest we have had requests to > merge it in Fedora (which we've given the usual "get it upstream" response to). > The folks who run the Fedora infrastructure have been enthusiastic > about it for a while (which is why I ended up on the CC for this thread I guess). > I don't have details about their exact use-cases, but if desired, I can > find out more. >
Oh. Thanks. Well we should all get cracking on it then.
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