Re: [PATCH 00/20] DRBD 9 rework

Christoph Hellwig
2026-04-09T06:40:42Z

First an apology, I thought it was in your tree, but it looks like
the drbd branch just has minor fixes. So a lot less urgency.

On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 06:58:58AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> See the previous discussion,

Do you have a pointer to that discussion? I can't remember one.

> the goal is to sync the two drbd code
> bases. It's followed the "usual" pattern of the in-kernel driver being
> neglected and development and users pushed to the out-of-tree one,
> which is highly annoying.

I don't think that's a a usual pattern. Also the new version looks
like a complete rewrite and not something incremental:

45 files changed, 45891 insertions(+), 16264 deletions(-)

For a code base that is "29482 total".

I think reviewing it would be easier by just adding an new drbd9 driver
and then steering people toward it carefully, as that is actually
reviewable compared to non-bisectable patches changing large chunks
of code in a non-atomic way.