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