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diff --git a/system/drbd/README b/system/drbd/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..1ed201a2d5ee9 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/drbd/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +drbd (Distributed Replicated Block Device) + +DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability +clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via +(a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network RAID1. DRBD +takes over the data, writes it to the local disk and sends it to +the other host. On the other host, it takes it to the disk there. + +DRBD can be built as a module, or it can be patched into the kernel. +This build creates a kernel module based on your current kernel +using /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build as the kernel source tree. +This may not be appropriate for you and you may need toi edit either +the KERNEL (uname -r) or KERNELPATH (/lib/modules/2.6.x-foo/build) +environment variable to point to the correct source or headers. |