From: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] RE: [Linux-cluster] Announce: GNBD 2.99.13 release
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:49:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081118154956.GB10717@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811181541110.17722@trider-g7>
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:38PM +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Ray Burkholder wrote:
>
> >>as of today GNBD has been removed from cluster.git master
> >>branch and made into a standalone, community driven, project
> >>and it will not be part of cluster-2.99.xx (and higher) releases.
> >>
> >>The main reason for splitting, and somehow sign the
> >>end-of-life of GNBD is that there are many, more powerful and
> >>recognized standard technologies out there that should be
> >>used in place of GNBD.
> >>
> >
> >Would you be able to provide some information on what you forsee to be the
> >'more powerful and recognized standard technologies'?
>
> iSCSI, AOE and probably others that are recognized by hw vendors as
> standard protocol for their products.
I'd just add that if there's still a niche for gnbd for some reason, then
the best path forward is to enhance nbd in the upstream kernel as a
replacement.
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2008-11-18 10:25 [Cluster-devel] Announce: GNBD 2.99.13 release Fabio M. Di Nitto
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2008-11-18 14:42 ` [Cluster-devel] RE: [Linux-cluster] " Fabio M. Di Nitto
2008-11-18 15:49 ` David Teigland [this message]
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