Re: drbd in linux-2.6
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:02:00AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 04:02:22PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:45:54PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > On 2010-03-30, dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > drbd maintainers,
> > > >
> > > > As you no doubt know, linux-modules-extra has been dropped for
> > > > squeeze. The recommended[1] direction for building out-of-tree module
> > > > is to either:
> > > >
> > > > a) get merged into linux-2.6
> > > > b) use the dkms framework
> > > >
> > > > DRBD is now merged upstream, so it seems like a good candidate for
> > > > option a. Do the drbd8 maintainers know of any issue with that
> > > > (userspace tool compatability, etc)? Are you ok with dropping the
> > > > drbd8-source binary package if we include this in linux-2.6?
> > > >
> > > > I've backported the latest upstream DRBD bits into our kernel targeted
> > > > at squeeze:
> > > > http://people.debian.org/~dannf/drbd/
> > > >
> > > > I'd appreciate it if an existing drbd user could test it.
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00003.html
> > >
> > > I've done the same 3-4 weeks ago and likewise send them the patch for
> > > testing, unfortunately they we unable to test it yet.
> >
> > Oh, sorry - I must've missed that. Did you get a response or just
> > silence? I was thinking that if we didn't get a response in a couple
> > of days, I could contact some of the drbd8 bug reporters and see if we
> > can recruit them to test :)
>
> Sorry for the late response, I'm still in VAC more or less.
>
> DRBD maintainers said they wanted to look into it, but one of the
> maintainers had a ski accident and AFAICS noone found the time to test
> it over the course of the last two months.
Oh, ok. Just before I read this I sent a message about some positive
test results I got from a DRBD user.
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