[Fwd: Status of DRBD]

[Chuck Short]

Tim Gardner wrote:
> Ante Karamatić wrote:
>   
>> I've sent it to the wrong list :/
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Status of DRBD
>> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:38:37 +0200
>> From: Ante Karamatić <ivoks at grad.hr>
>> To: ubuntu-kernel at lists.ubuntu.com
>> CC: ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-ha at lists.launchpad.net
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> After discussing this topic during ubuntu-server team meeting, I've
>> decided to sent an email to all related parties with questions and
>> proposal of next steps.
>>
>> From packaging point of view, DRBD consists of two parts; kernel part
>> and userspace tools. Userspace tools heavily depend on kernel part and
>> it is required that those two would be of the same version.
>>
>> At the moment, kernel part of the DRBD is being taking care of by Ubuntu
>> Kernel Team with occasional patches from Server Team. Server Team takes
>> care of user space tools. This arrangement introduces couple of problems:
>>
>> 1) backporting DRBD is impossible without introducing new kernel or
>> having two drbd modules in kernel
>> 2) during development, we brake DRBD at least once (not a big deal, but
>> could be avoided)
>> 3) maintaining DRBD requires keeping track of what's going on in kernel
>>
>> I would like to bring kernel part of the whole package to Server Team.
>> That way Server Team would control whole package and would be able to
>> create backported packages for previous releases or utilize PPA.
>>
>> This could be achieved with dkms. So, my question goes to Kernel Team:
>>
>> Do you consider using dkms as a bad idea for this purpose? And do you
>> have any suggestions or recommendations on how to solve this?
>>
>> Thank you all
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I don't have any issues with removing DRBD from Karmic. Are you sure the
> server community is going to accept a DKMS package and all of the
> baggage that implies?
>
> Soren, Dustin - comments ?
>
> rtg
>   
None here, in fact it should have probably done sooner.

Regards
chuck