From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:37:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081228133711.GA858@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081226191701.GA1761@ucw.cz>
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 08:17:02PM +0100, Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz) wrote:
> > 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?
Kind of... In this regard any network device which transfers IO and
related requests over the network is a nbd on steroids.
> ...reminds me, nbd-server should really fsync data before returning success...
There are lots of issues NBD could have at first... When I compared DST
with AoE and NFS, Debian Lenny/Etch's nbd server crashed on startup, so
I was not able to run my tests against it.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-28 13:37 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 ` [0/7] Distributed storage release Pavel Machek
2008-12-28 13:37 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2008-12-28 18:17 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-12-28 18:17 ` Bill Davidsen
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