> On 17 Jan 2015, at 4:19 am, Digimer <li...@alteeve.ca> wrote: > > On 16/01/15 10:43 AM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: >> On 1/16/2015 8:39 AM, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: >>> On 2015-01-16T11:56:04, "EXTERNAL Konold Martin (erfrakon, >> RtP2/TEF72)" <external.martin.kon...@de.bosch.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have been told that support for DRBD is supposed to be phased >>>> out from both SLES and RHEL in the near future. >>> >>> This is massively incorrect for SLE HA. (drbd is part of the HA add-on, >>> not SLES.) We have absolutely no such plans, and will continue to >>> support drbd as part of our offerings. >>> >>> Where did you hear that? >> >> Don't know about RHEL but on Centos you get DRBD from ELRepo, not even >> EPEL, so I expect it has not been in the RHEL for quite some time. >> Unless RedHat's offering it as a separate add-on to their paying >> customers (but the last rumour I heard was they wouldn't do it 'cause >> they didn't want to share the loot with linbit). >> >> Dima > > When RHEL 6 was released, Red Hat wanted to reduce their support overhead a > lot. So many things that used to be supported were dropped.
To my knowledge, DRBD was never actually supported. Which would mean Red Hat's co-operation with Linbit has only ever increased over time - something I can't imagine changing. > DRBD, unlike most other dropped programs, is still supported, just not by RH > directly. They worked out an agreement with LINBIT to allow officially > supported RHEL systems to be fully supported when they ran DRBD. The > agreement was that RHEL users who needed DRBD support specifically would be > routed to LINBIT for that support. > > So though it's changed, it is still supported. > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ > What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access > to education? > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
