cluster-devel.redhat.com archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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.



      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18 10:25 [Cluster-devel] Announce: GNBD 2.99.13 release Fabio M. Di Nitto
     [not found] ` <AAE16DDC253147BDBC8D9DB13A64B332@oneunified.local>
2008-11-18 14:42   ` [Cluster-devel] RE: [Linux-cluster] " Fabio M. Di Nitto
2008-11-18 15:49     ` David Teigland [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20081118154956.GB10717@redhat.com \
    --to=teigland@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).