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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] DRBD: a block device for HA clusters
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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@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:26:36 +0200 Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> 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
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