DRBD To Be Included In Linux Kernel 2.6.33

An anonymous reader writes "The long-time Linux kernel module for block replication over TCP, DRBD, has been accepted as part of the main Linux kernel. Amid much fanfare and some slight controversy, Linus has pulled the DRBD source into the 2.6.33 tree, expected to release February, 2010. DRBD has existed as open source and been available in major distros for 10 years, but lived outside the main kernel tree in the hands of LINBIT, based in Vienna. Being accepted into the main kernel tree means better cooperation and wider user accessibility to HA data replication."

Comments

Re:How does this differ from NBD?

[Anonymous Coward]

The "DR" stands for Distributed and Replicated. DRBD is way higher-level in function, but integrated lower-level than the simple userspace daemon that the server side of NBD uses.

Read the docs, the differences should be blindingly obvious.

Re:How does this differ from NBD?

[Anonymous Coward]

You should consider a career as a teacher.

And then you should shoot yourself in your fucking brainpan.

Re:Another networking module... great

[richlv]

i'm sorry to say, but that's not a good attitude. and i'm being polite here.

developers need testers. some arrogant assholes might claim they don't, but then they're known as ones. now, to attract testers you not only are polite to them, you also do not discourage them by breaking or ignoring things that hamper them (but might not concern casual users), you actually should build tools and other support functionality for testing.
essentially, having less testers will impact quality of the software for everybody else, so casual users also should desire for the project to have more testers.

i'm glad that at least some kernel hackers recognise this, and 2.6.32 actually has support for new configuration method, which looks at already loaded modules and some other stuff to create trimmed down kernel config - http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges#head-11f54cdac41ad6150ef817fd68597554d9d05a5f