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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Cc: Paul.Clements@steeleye.com, nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:54:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080202205443.GD31621@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201965971.4591.13.camel@frecb07144>

Hi!

> > > This patch allows Network Block Device to be mounted locally.
...
> Correct. The patch improves the NBD behavior even if it is not perfect.
> And I think if no other page can be freed your system is in very bad
> move ;-)

So the description should be 

"This patch lowers probability of deadlock if you mount  Network Block Device locally"

Hmm.
									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-02 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-01 13:25 [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally Laurent Vivier
2008-02-02 11:23 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-02 11:52   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-02 15:26   ` Laurent Vivier
2008-02-02 16:13     ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-02-02 20:54     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-02 14:40 devzero
2008-02-02 16:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-02 17:31 devzero
2008-02-03  0:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-03  6:02   ` Kyle Moffett

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