[DRBD-user] drbd-8.3.1rc1.tar.gz

Bruno Voigt Bruno.Voigt at ic3s.de
Wed Mar 18 16:06:38 CET 2009

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


Philipp Reisner wrote:
>> Will it be possible (in a future release?) to omit the device clause in
>> the resource definition
>> if the application will only use the symlinks and doesn't care for the
>> actual minor device used?
>> So that the using systems doesn't need to check for unallocated device
>> numbers during new resource creation / resource move to another cluster
>> system.
>>
>> Actually we discussed that here at LINBIT already, we might do that 
>> some when. BTW, you will likely end up with different minors on the 
>> two ends of the resource. -> That will break NFS fail over, as long
>> as you do not set the fsid of NFS.
>>
>>     
Thanks for the explanation -  I understand - so as with other parameters
some usage scenarios will always set them explicitly and others might be
able to get along without them in the future..

>>> *) include statement:
>>>    Although we have not yet changed the configuration examples, but now
>>>    it is possible to have a drbd.conf that looks like this:
>>>       
> Oops.
> http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=commitdiff;h=997387d334d2554f57f7c8d6599b4b571e318927;hp=f4b052773f1020d8a0d29009e2b9d8772a737493
>
> Thanks for pointing it out!
>   
Thanks again for the very fast response !

WR,
Bruno

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