[CentOS-devel] [CentOS] drbd-kmdl packages question

Thu Mar 11 17:49:58 UTC 2010
Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com>

>> Akemi,
>> Funny, there was just a thread on the extra repo's drbd packages today
>> in the drbd list. Given those packages have bugs and are not really
>> maintained, along with the fact of how easy it is to make rpm's directly
>> from source (lacking kmod though) might it be wise to drop them?
>>
>> jlc
>
>I saw a brief discussion on this subject (maintaining drbd etc) on the
>centos-devel IRC channel not long ago. Maybe this matter should be
>discussed in the -devel mailing list ??  I would like to hear from
>core CentOS devs.

Akemi,
As suggested, I am posting here to get the dev feedback, clearly having
kmods is a much better solution than linbits approach, but the existing
bugs will likely catch most new uses off guard.

Thanks guys,
jlc