linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/16] DRBD: a block device for HA clusters

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905022239100.15782@asgard>
Date:	Sat, 2 May 2009 22:40:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
cc:	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>,
	Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@...e.de>,
	Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>,
	Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] DRBD: a block device for HA clusters

On Sun, 3 May 2009, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:33:35AM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Morton
>> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:26:36 +0200 Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a repost of DRBD
>>>
>>> Is it being used anywhere for anything?  If so, where and what?
>>
>> One popular application is to run iSCSI and HA software on top of DRBD
>> in order to build a highly available iSCSI storage target.
>
> Confirmed, I have several customers who're doing exactly that.

I will also say that there are a lot of us out here who would have a use 
for DRDB in our HA setups, but have held off implementing it specificly 
because it's not yet in the upstream kernel.

David Lang