On 04/13/2010 01:31 AM, Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> We are looking at puting drbd into SL5.  I do not think our packaging is
>>> ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested before putting
>>> it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we want to put it in SL 5.6.
>>>
>>> "DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability
>>> clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a
>>> dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1."

...

> It's my understanding that drbd will be added to the Linux kernel (if it
> hasn't been already).
>

You are correct.  It was added in the 2.6.33 kernel.
http://www.drbd.org/
We are doing version 8.3.7, which is the version that was put into the 
kernel.

Troy
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