From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Teigland Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:49:57 -0600 Subject: [Cluster-devel] RE: [Linux-cluster] Announce: GNBD 2.99.13 release In-Reply-To: References: <1227003957.2447.82.camel@daitarn-fedora.int.fabbione.net> Message-ID: <20081118154956.GB10717@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.