From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dst@ioremap.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/7] Distributed storage release.
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:17:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081226191701.GA1761@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1230292576-23963-1-git-send-email-zbr@ioremap.net>
On Fri 2008-12-26 14:56:09, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This is a maintenance distributed storage release, which includes a
> rebase against the 2.6.28 kernel tree only.
>
> DST is a network block device storage, which can be used to organize
> exported storages on the remote nodes into the local block device.
>
> Its main goal of the project is to allow creation of the block devices
> on top of different network media and connect physically distributed devices
> into single storage using existing network infrastructure and not
> introducing new limitations into the protocol and network usage model.
So it is basically nbd on steroids?
...reminds me, nbd-server should really fsync data before returning success...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-28 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-26 11:56 [0/7] Distributed storage release Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [1/7] dst: core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [2/7] dst: network state machine Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [3/7] dst: export node Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [4/7] dst: thread pool Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [5/7] dst: transactions Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [6/7] dst: crypto processing Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [7/7] dst: kconfig and makefile changes Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-30 17:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-12-30 21:21 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 19:17 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-12-28 13:37 ` [0/7] Distributed storage release Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-28 18:17 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-12-28 18:17 ` Bill Davidsen
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