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1 Description
2
3 DRBD is a shared-nothing, synchronously replicated block device. It
4 is designed to serve as a building block for high availability
5 clusters and in this context, is a "drop-in" replacement for shared
6 storage. Simplistically, you could see it as a network RAID 1.
7
8 Please visit http://www.drbd.org to find out more.
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10 The here included files are intended to help understand the implementation
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12 DRBD-8.3-data-packets.svg, DRBD-data-packets.svg
13 relates some functions, and write packets.
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15 conn-states-8.dot, disk-states-8.dot, node-states-8.dot
16 The sub graphs of DRBD's state transitions