[dm-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] dm-replicator: introduce new remote replication target

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Dec 9 10:39:41 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:42:27PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> Could I just echo Lars' statement.  With the upstream inclusion of drbd,
> dm-replicator becomes a *third* replication system asking to be in
> kernel.  It is definitely a kernel policy question of whether we want
> three separate replicators, and so should be Cc'd to lkml so that people
> interested in that can weigh in.

And unliley the previous two this one actually offers the benefit of
beeing integrated with our major block device management framework.

Interesting that the question comes up now after I was shot down for it
in the drbd discussion.




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