From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx.in-addr.de (gate.in-addr.de [212.8.193.158]) by mail09.linbit.com (LINBIT Mail Daemon) with ESMTP id 0A52410620AB for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:43:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:43:02 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com Message-ID: <20091016114302.GC26808@suse.de> References: <20091016103845.GA15975@suse.de> <20091016112001.GB8041@barkeeper1-xen.linbit> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20091016112001.GB8041@barkeeper1-xen.linbit> Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] SCTP support for drbd List-Id: Coordination of development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 2009-10-16T13:20:01, Lars Ellenberg 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 -- Architect Storage/HA, OPS Engineering, Novell, Inc. SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde