From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it,	anyways?
 [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:51:34 +0100
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Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>, david@lang.hm,
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To: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
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Paul Clements wrote:
> Well, if people would like to see a timeout option, I actually coded up 
> a patch a couple of years ago to do just that, but I never got it into 
> mainline because you can do almost as well by doing a check at 
> user-level (I basically ping the nbd connection periodically and if it 
> fails, I kill -9 the nbd-client).


Yes please.

David