Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760696AbZFZTdw (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:33:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754832AbZFZTdo (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:33:44 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:58638 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752251AbZFZTdn (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:33:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:32:15 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard To: Al Boldi cc: James Bottomley , 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] drbd: a block device for HA clusters In-Reply-To: <200906262142.30895.a1426z@gawab.com> Message-ID: References: <1246017715-9821-1-git-send-email-philipp.reisner@linbit.com> <200906261843.59635.a1426z@gawab.com> <1246032541.3925.53.camel@mulgrave.site> <200906262142.30895.a1426z@gawab.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2351 Lines: 64 On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Al Boldi wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 18:43 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: >>> 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. >> >> It is clear because everyone agrees on the definition. > > Everyone involved in the project maybe, but not everyone interested in "a > block device for HA clusters". And you don't want to turn them of by using > terminology to explain terminology, especially when it's misleading. Many > OpenSource projects fail merely for this reason. anyone who knows the terminology for HA clusters should understand the term "shared-nothing" do you really want the full explination to have to be squeezed into this sentance? or even the patch description? David Lang >> And it is self >> explanatory because it's an art term for a well defined concept which >> forms one of the building blocks of the nomenclature used in clustering. >> Even if you're not familiar with clustering terminology, the definitions >> are easy to find via search engines. >> >> If you want to find useful quibbles, the term synchronously is wrong: >> DRBD is capable of both synchronous and asynchronous replication. > > Ok, so maybe change the description to reflect this capability. > Something like: DRBD is an independent, synch/async replicated block device. > > > 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/ > -- 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/