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From: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
To: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH] dynamic creation/removal more then 256 drbd
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Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:36:32 +0200
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On Friday 04 May 2007 11:06, Philipp Reisner wrote:
> We are just looking at the patch and are wondering why one
> would like to have more than 256 devices ?

Philipp,  

With LVM it is possible to create many logical volumes.
One may want to create a lot of (small) logical volumes and  
use them as backing devices for drbd for replication 
to some hosts with also a lot of logical volumes.
Now drbd have flexible meta data so replication of
small size block devices have sense. Someone may want to
make replication on many small devices.

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Cheers
Stanislaw Gruszka