[Drbd-dev] New Features

[Morey Roof]

I have been programming professionally for about 12 years with C/C++
in various system.  I have worked on various parts of Linux for
companies but I never submitted work to be included until recently.
So I am a bit new to the get stuff out there model, but I am quite
experienced working on very large and complex projects.

What has allowed me to start working on some open source projects
recently is the move to a job for a college where such work is
welcomed and encouraged instead of the traditional business models
where everything is a closely guarded secret.  We have been using DRBD
for a while and I have found that there are several itches I would
like to scratch, so to speak.

Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,

Morey

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Lars Ellenberg
<lars.ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:24:30PM -0600, Morey Roof wrote:
>> I have been using DRBD and really like but I have wanted to add some new
>> features to it and I wanted to ask you guys what you need and
>> requirements you may have on patches to DRBD.
>
> Could you tell us about your background, and prior coding experience,
> and how much time you think you want to spend on this?
>
> In the drbd module, we currently do not actively work on new features
> that would be suitable to be implemented by anyone not very familiar
> with the drbd code base.  If you think you are, let me know...
>
> Finding and squashing bugs is always a wellcome contribution.
>
> Userland could be improved, e.g. adding an "include" statement
> to the drbd.conf grammar, which would allow to have the configuration
> split out in /etc/drbd.conf.d/*.conf.
>
> Error messages can be improved, in both kernel and userland.
>
> The community would be happy to see some detailed walk-throughs from
> scratch for drbd integration with pacemaker, including various typically
> deployed services on top of drbd.
>
> I'd be happy to see a recent and solid HA-DRBD-NFS howto,
> so if you feel that would be a task for you,
> set up an HA-DRBD-NFSv4 server, and document everything needed to make
> it behave as expected (document the expectations as well) in face of
> failover, switchover, node reboot, cluster reboot, replication link failure,
> other component failures, various administrative tasks.
>  An advanced variation on the theme: "load balancing" HA-DRBD-NFSv4
> cluster, using multiple drbd, each with its own file system, fsid, and
> HA-ip, and then switchover at will, without causing server nor client
> hickups.
>
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