Re: [PATCH 00/16] DRBD: a block device for HA clusters

[david]

On Sun, 3 May 2009, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:33:35AM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Morton
> > <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:26:36 +0200 Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is a repost of DRBD
> > >
> > > Is it being used anywhere for anything?  If so, where and what?
> >
> > One popular application is to run iSCSI and HA software on top of DRBD
> > in order to build a highly available iSCSI storage target.
>
> Confirmed, I have several customers who're doing exactly that.

I will also say that there are a lot of us out here who would have a use 
for DRDB in our HA setups, but have held off implementing it specificly 
because it's not yet in the upstream kernel.

David Lang