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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [1/4] dst: Distributed storage documentation.
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 22:50:59 -0600
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:53:23PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> 
> Distributed storage documentation.
> 
> Algorithms used in the system, userspace interfaces
> (sysfs dirs and files), design and implementation details
> are described here.

Can you give us a summary of how this differs from using device mapper
with NBD?

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