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Mon Mar 21 07:59:42 CET 2022


the gravity of the situation, which is also worrying.

>> The main discrepancy here is that there are apparently huge numbers of
>> in-tree users, yet no fixes or patches at all making it to mainline.
>> Either drbd is bug free and doesn't require any fixes at all, which I
>> very much would doubt, or fixes aren't being sent upstream.
> 
> It is the broad consent among the users of the drbd-8.4 branch (that is what
> is in-tree), is that it works for its purpose. It is for sure not bug-free,
> but people are not running into bugs anymore. So, call it free of relevant
> bugs, if you want.  No new features go into that branch, on purpose. To keep
> it that way.
> 
> Have a look at that one real bug-fix that was identified in the last Year.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-block/patch/20210426163032.3454129-1-christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com/
> 
> When do you want to have that reposted to you?
> right now? Just before the next merge window opens?

That can go in anytime, so please do submit it.

-- 
Jens Axboe



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