Debian DRBD Port

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sun Jun 25 20:41:13 UTC 2006


On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> Quoting Aaron Dalton <aaron at FreeBSD.org> (from Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:14:35 
> -0600):
>
> [moving to ports@]
>
>> http://www.drbd.org/start.html
>> 
>> Has anybody ever looked at porting this software.  It looks like it
>> would need all the linux compat ports with which I have no experience.
>> Just wondering if it has ever been attempted.
>
> From reading the first page only: I don't think you can use our linux 
> infrastructure for this. You need to write a FreeBSD native kernel module for 
> this.

This is mostly a linux version of geom_gate. The protcol is probably 
different but the underlying idea is the same.

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