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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xend: drbd improvements
Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Ian Jackson wrote:
>
>> Jim Fehlig writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] xend: drbd improvements"):
>>
>>
>>> xend: drbd improvements
>>>
>>> 1) drbdadm state is debrecated, and the script tries to detect the
>>> primary/secondary information from the deprecated message
>>> 2) os.popen2 does not work with the array as argument
>>> 3) popen2 is deprecated since python2.6
>>>
>>>
>> Forgive my ignorance, but: why does xend need to mess with drbd at
>> all ? Why can't it just open the block device ?
>>
>>
>
> Good question. I too was surprised to see special casing of drbd within
> xend. Seems c/s 20158 added this code to allow bootloaders (pygrub,
> domUloader, et. al.) to work with drbd devices using the 'drbd:resource'
> syntax. Perhaps the author of that patch (cc'd) can provide more
> details.
The patch author's mail address is no longer valid, so we won't be
receiving any feedback from him :-(.
Regards,
Jim
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