[DRBD-user] Re: drbd "short read" ???

Gernot Schmied gernot.schmied at chello.at
Thu Sep 22 13:15:23 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Scott Simpson wrote:
> Philipp Reisner wrote:
> 
>> in DRBD-0.7 there is no explicit shutdown packet in the protocol,
>> so that node simply states, the other side closed the socket, while
>> I expected a packet header... nothing to worry about.
>>  
>>
> Does this mean that drbd-0.8 has this? Knowing the difference between a
> graceful and non-graceful shutdown seems like a good idea.

Well, yes and no. From a purist's point of view this is desirable,
especially for the purpose of log sanity. However, it does not really do
any harm so one might argue that it's pure cosmetics :-).

Gernot




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