Re: [Drbd-dev] SCTP support for drbd

[Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>]

On 2009-10-16T13:20:01, Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> wrote:

> > The other service is drbd, which also uses TCP-only right now. It'd be
> > nice if it also supported SCTP; it can't be that hard, since the
> > in-kernel dlm also supports TCP and SCTP.
> Is somewhere on our todo list,
> but may have to wait for DRBD 9.
> Feature sponsoring accepted ;)

How much sponsoring do you need? Florian said it looked trivial enough.
;-)

> > As a further consideration, I'd like to point out how cool it'd be if
> > drbd could also, like the DLM, default to gathering its network
> > information from the OpenAIS/corosync layer (perhaps via a
> > drbd_controld); the peers could auto-detect each other based on the
> > UUID/label of the drbd instance being activated.  It'd reduce the need
> > to duplicate information between configuration files for the most common
> > scenarios.
> >
> > (This would also be an extremely convenient and even neater way for
> > floating peers.)
> -EPONIES

It may be something you could put on said todo list as well. It'd be
beneficial for drbd users, would it not?

> proof of concept implementations may be reviewed, though ;)

Well, before heading down that path it may be worthwhile to get feedback
as to whether you think this is a useful feature or not. Even if we
don't implement it, maybe one day there'll be a student looking for a
thesis topic ;-)



Regards,
    Lars

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