Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Am Donnerstag, 18. März 2004 02:21 schrieb Kees Cook: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:33:51PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > > Hi! I'm working on testing drbd for our (linux 2.6) HA rollout plans, > > and noticed that the build instructions are strictly for modular builds. > > Has anyone tried a monolithic build? (I'm working on it now myself, but > > I was curious.) > > Next question: why does drbd use the "nbd" device major number? Due to historic reasons. In Linux-2.2 there where some special cases hardcoded into ll_rw_blk.c Yes in drbd-0.7 we should move to our own major number. (I tried to get a official major number, but my requests were never answered) -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, Austria http://www.linbit.com :