From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:18:00 +0100 From: Pavel Machek Subject: NBD was Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 Message-ID: <20071031111800.GA2551@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20071030160401.296770000@chello.nl> <200710311426.33223.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20071030.213753.126064697.davem@davemloft.net> <20071031085041.GA4362@infradead.org> <1193828206.27652.145.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1193828206.27652.145.camel@twins> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Hellwig , David Miller , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no List-ID: Hi! > > So please get the VM bits for swap over network blockdevices in first, > > Trouble with that part is that we don't have any sane network block > devices atm, NBD is utter crap, and iSCSI is too complex to be called > sane. Hey, NBD was designed to be _simple_. And I think it works okay in that area.. so can you elaborate on "utter crap"? [Ok, performance is not great.] Plus, I'd suggest you to look at ata-over-ethernet. It is in tree today, quite simple, but should have better performance than nbd. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org