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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:06:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> To: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [DRIVER SUBMISSION] DRBD wants to go mainline On Jul 22 2007 00:43, Lars Ellenberg wrote: >On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:17:43PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jul 21 2007 22:38, Lars Ellenberg wrote: >> > >> >We implement shared-disk semantics in a shared-nothing cluster. >> >> If nothing is shared, the disk is not shared, but got shared-disk >> semantics? A little confusing. > >Think of it as RAID1 over TCP. And what does it do better than raid1-over-NBD? (Which is already N-disk, and, logically, seems to support cluster filesystems) >Typically you have one Node in Primary, the other as Secondary, >replication target only. >But you can also have both Active, for use with a cluster file system. > >So the semantics are like you have >two (to come: N) nodes and a shared disk. >only that there is not one shared disk, >but two (N) replicated ones. > >btw, regarding linux kernel CodingStyle issues. >scripts/checkpatch.pl reports 2000+ lines of complaints. >I'm working on it now, it is mostly whitespace (lame excuse: phil grew >up with emacs and gnu coding style, sorry for that). > Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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