TESTING - drbd update for SL5

2010-04-12 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, We are looking at puting drbd into SL5. I do not think our packaging is ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested before putting it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we want to put it in SL 5.6. "DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability clus

Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5

2010-04-12 Thread Jon Peatfield
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Troy Dawson wrote: Hello, We are looking at puting drbd into SL5. I do not think our packaging is ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested before putting it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we want to put it in SL 5.6. "DRBD is a block device which i

Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Troy, > Hello, > We are looking at puting drbd into SL5. I do not think our > packaging is ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested > before putting it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we want > to put it in SL 5.6. > > "DRBD is a block device which is designed to bu

Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Jon, > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Troy Dawson wrote: > > > Hello, > > We are looking at puting drbd into SL5. I do not think our packaging is > > ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested before putting > > it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we want to put it in SL 5.6. > > >

Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5

2010-04-13 Thread Troy Dawson
On 04/13/2010 01:31 AM, Michael Mansour wrote: Hi Jon, On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Troy Dawson wrote: Hello, We are looking at puting drbd into SL5. I do not think our packaging is ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested before putting it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we

Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5

2010-04-13 Thread Chris Hunter
nbd is similar in function to iscsi; it exports block devices across a network. Iscsi is probably a more mature than nbd by now. The limitation is only one host can mount the nbd at a time. nbd reminds of ATA over ethernet. drbd replicates a block device across the network. Intended for high

Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5

2010-05-24 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, I have updated the drbd packages so that they are using the Fedora style of packaging. I changed the packaging to be like Fedora's because it looks like drbd might make it into RHEL 6 (or 6.1), and if it does make it in, it will be packaged the Fedora way. You should still be able to