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diff --git a/system/drbd-tools/README b/system/drbd-tools/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c5923fcb46 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/drbd-tools/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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. + +Starting with Linux 2.6.33, DRBD is officially integrated into the +vanilla Linux kernel source. Besides the kernel integration, DRBD +continues to be developed out of tree. + +This SlackBuild compiles the userland tools for working with DRBD. +If you have a 2.6.33 kernel or later then you will need to ensure +DRBD has been configured in your kernel. If you have an earlier +kernel, then you will need the drbd-kernel package. |