[Fwd: Status of DRBD]

[Tim Gardner]

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
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