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From: Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>,
	drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] state of drbd in mainline
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:01:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff5bc3eb8fa27845cefa2f96e5241972@stwm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220329073254.GA20691@lst.de>

Am 2022-03-29 09:32, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 09:22:26AM +0200, Philipp Reisner wrote:
>> Hi Christoph,
>> 
>> what do you expect for the DRBD changes? Usually, they fall into the
>> category: yes, obviously. When you are changing the block layer in 
>> this
>> way, then that is necessary for the in-tree DRBD code.
>> 
>> Regarding users: Yes, there are users of the in-tree DRBD code. Very 
>> big
>> corporations. And, yes, we see pressure building up that we get our 
>> act
>> together and re-sync the in-tree DRBD with the out-of tree DRBD.
> 
> The complete lack of bug reports and maintainer interaction usually
> suggests low to no use and heavy bitrot.  If that is not the case
> here that's fine, just asking..
> 
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We use the in-tree DRBD with LTS (actually 5.15.32 and 5.4.188) and 
depend on it. It just works. We never had any issues in the last 5 
years.

Regards
-- 
Wolfgang Walter
Studentenwerk München
Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-29 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-29  7:06 state of drbd in mainline Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-29  7:24 ` Philipp Reisner
     [not found] ` <CADGDV=UgjZAbmAN-2bO1nyDvA=XCC9Lf2dxWHZ0BwxF12nnztQ@mail.gmail.com>
2022-03-29  7:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-29  7:50     ` Philipp Reisner
2022-03-29 12:29       ` Jens Axboe
2022-03-29 15:44         ` Philipp Reisner
2022-03-29 15:52           ` Jens Axboe
2022-03-30 15:23             ` Philipp Reisner
2022-03-30 18:06               ` Mike Snitzer
2022-03-30 18:24               ` Jens Axboe
2022-03-30 19:31               ` [Drbd-dev] " Kiselev, Oleg
2022-03-30 20:21                 ` Jens Axboe
2022-03-29 20:01     ` Wolfgang Walter [this message]

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