Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755775AbZFZPuJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:50:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751190AbZFZPt7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:49:59 -0400 Received: from mailhost18.gawab.com ([66.220.20.18]:37027 "HELO info3.gawab.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750899AbZFZPt7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:49:59 -0400 X-Trusted: Whitelisted From: Al Boldi To: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] drbd: a block device for HA clusters Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:43:59 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Philipp Reisner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Greg KH , Neil Brown , Sam Ravnborg , Dave Jones , Nikanth Karthikesan , Lars Marowsky-Bree , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , Kyle Moffett , Bart Van Assche , drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, Lars Ellenberg References: <1246017715-9821-1-git-send-email-philipp.reisner@linbit.com> <200906261715.40545.a1426z@gawab.com> <1246026335.3925.16.camel@mulgrave.site> In-Reply-To: <1246026335.3925.16.camel@mulgrave.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906261843.59635.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 26 James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 17:15 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > Philipp Reisner wrote: > > > Short Description > > > > > > DRBD is a shared-nothing, synchronously replicated block device. > > > > What do you mean by "shared-nothing"? > > If you actually type "shared nothing" into google, the first hit will be > the wikipedia article describing this. Sure, but the point here is to choose a description that is clear and self-explanatory, and "shared-nothing" is neither clear nor self-explanatory. Thanks! -- Al -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/