1 This describes the in kernel data structure for DRBD-9. Starting with
2 Linux v3.14 we are reorganizing DRBD to use this data structure.
7 A node has a number of DRBD resources. Each such resource has a number of
8 devices (aka volumes) and connections to other nodes ("peer nodes"). Each DRBD
9 device is represented by a block device locally.
11 The DRBD objects are interconnected to form a matrix as depicted below; a
12 drbd_peer_device object sits at each intersection between a drbd_device and a
15 /--------------+---------------+.....+---------------\
16 | resource | device | | device |
17 +--------------+---------------+.....+---------------+
18 | connection | peer_device | | peer_device |
19 +--------------+---------------+.....+---------------+
22 +--------------+---------------+.....+---------------+
23 | connection | peer_device | | peer_device |
24 \--------------+---------------+.....+---------------/
26 In this table, horizontally, devices can be accessed from resources by their
27 volume number. Likewise, peer_devices can be accessed from connections by
28 their volume number. Objects in the vertical direction are connected by double
29 linked lists. There are back pointers from peer_devices to their connections a
30 devices, and from connections and devices to their resource.
32 All resources are in the drbd_resources double-linked list. In addition, all
33 devices can be accessed by their minor device number via the drbd_devices idr.
35 The drbd_resource, drbd_connection, and drbd_device objects are reference
36 counted. The peer_device objects only serve to establish the links between
37 devices and connections; their lifetime is determined by the lifetime of the
38 device and connection which they reference.