Re: [PATCH] xend: drbd improvements

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@novell.com>]

Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Ian Jackson wrote:
>   
>> Jim Fehlig writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] xend: drbd improvements"):
>>   
>>     
>>> xend: drbd improvements
>>>
>>> 1) drbdadm state is debrecated, and the script tries to detect the
>>> primary/secondary information from the deprecated message
>>> 2) os.popen2 does not work with the array as argument
>>> 3) popen2 is deprecated since python2.6
>>>     
>>>       
>> Forgive my ignorance, but: why does xend need to mess with drbd at
>> all ?  Why can't it just open the block device ?
>>   
>>     
>
> Good question.  I too was surprised to see special casing of drbd within
> xend.  Seems c/s 20158 added this code to allow bootloaders (pygrub,
> domUloader, et. al.) to work with drbd devices using the 'drbd:resource'
> syntax.  Perhaps the author of that patch (cc'd) can provide more
> details.

The patch author's mail address is no longer valid, so we won't be
receiving any feedback from him :-(.

Regards,
Jim