[rhelv6-beta-list] From rhelv5-list: RHEL 6 Kernel (and DRBD)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> Colin Coe wrote:
>> Could any RedHat employees on the list please put DRDB in as a feature
>> request for RHEL6.1?
>
> Tim Edwards wrote:
>> +1 to that, really surprised that Redhat's missed out what is a very
>> important feature for a lot of 'enterprise' environments.
>> Please Redhat, either use the 2.6.33 kernel or backport DRBD into
>> your 2.6.32 package.
>
> Tim Edwards wrote:
>> We just manually build DRBD since it works very well once installed.
>> However it erodes the value of expensive Redhat subscriptions if you end
>> up having to do so many things yourself, that then can't be supported of
>> course.
>
> Kirby Zhou wrote:
>> The seller of multipath disk array will not accept you.
>> If RHEL contains DRBD, who will buy a dual-port multipath disk array,
>> who will build a FC-SAN?
>
> James Harrison wrote:
>> Have you tried a combination of iSCSI and gfs2? Both are available
>> from Red Hat.
>
> Feature requests can be made by anyone in Bugzilla.  One does not have
> to ask a Red Hat employee or even be a Red Hat customers or partner.
> Feature requests in public Bugzilla are regularly considered and many
> accepted or rejected, with full, quite transparent commentary on why.
>

Sometimes people believe that if an RH employee makes the request it
will have more weight than a non-RH employee. For the most part, that
is not the case... they will have equal footing.



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Stephen J Smoogen.
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