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Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:01:15 +0200
From:   Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] state of drbd in mainline
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Am 2022-03-29 09:32, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 09:22:26AM +0200, Philipp Reisner wrote:
>> Hi Christoph,
>> 
>> what do you expect for the DRBD changes? Usually, they fall into the
>> category: yes, obviously. When you are changing the block layer in 
>> this
>> way, then that is necessary for the in-tree DRBD code.
>> 
>> Regarding users: Yes, there are users of the in-tree DRBD code. Very 
>> big
>> corporations. And, yes, we see pressure building up that we get our 
>> act
>> together and re-sync the in-tree DRBD with the out-of tree DRBD.
> 
> The complete lack of bug reports and maintainer interaction usually
> suggests low to no use and heavy bitrot.  If that is not the case
> here that's fine, just asking..
> 
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We use the in-tree DRBD with LTS (actually 5.15.32 and 5.4.188) and 
depend on it. It just works. We never had any issues in the last 5 
years.

Regards
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Wolfgang Walter
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