From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757976AbZENQ3b (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2009 12:29:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751909AbZENQ3V (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2009 12:29:21 -0400 Received: from mail09.linbit.com ([212.69.161.110]:52323 "EHLO mail09.linbit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751112AbZENQ3U (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2009 12:29:20 -0400 From: Philipp Reisner Organization: LINBIT To: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Contrasting DRBD with md/nbd Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:29:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) Cc: Lars Ellenberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley , Nikanth Karthikesan , "Lars Marowsky-Bree" References: <18955.47806.365247.808127@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: <18955.47806.365247.808127@notabene.brown> X-OTRS-FollowUp-SenderType: agent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905141829.20221.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 14 May 2009 08:31:26 Neil Brown wrote: > [ cc: list massively trimmed compared to original posting of code and > subsequent discussion..] > > Hi, > > Prior to giving DRBD a proper review I've been trying to make sure > that I understand it, so I have a valid model to compare the code > against (and so I can steal any bits that I like for md:-) > [...] > Thank you for reading. I found the exercise educational. I hope you > did too. I think I might even be ready to review the DRBD code now :-) > In fact I read the whole thing, I mostly agree. Maybe there are a view glitches in, but I do not take it as challenge to find those. I appreciate that you took you time to really understand what DRBD does. I assume you read some of the papers we published. BTW, I intend to send the code for a further round of review tomorrow. -Phil -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : Tel: +43-1-8178292-50, Fax: +43-1-8178292-82 : http://www.linbit.com DRBD(R) and LINBIT(R) are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria.