Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2004-01-12 11:03:32 +0100 \ Lars Marowsky-Bree: > On 2003-12-31T17:46:12, > Lars Ellenberg <l.g.e at web.de> said: > > > to avoid the common case where people think drbd is HA-filesharing: > > fail IO requests unless Primary > > syslogd in the default setting most often does a wall for KERN_EMERG. > > KERN_ALERT might be good enough, too. > > Pretty please! Yes! ;-) This is very important. Failing IO requests on > the secondary is very helpful and will confuse users much less than the > current state. > > > Is this acceptable? > > Yes. But I'd only add it to 0.7 and not introduce new code into 0.6... > This is good, but failing the device opening first would be even better? as long as we configure with ioctl, we need to be able to open it :) thats why kernel gurus don't like using the ioctl interface to configure a device ... Lars Ellenberg