Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030741AbXHMM5Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:57:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965433AbXHMHvn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:51:43 -0400 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:47291 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S942917AbXHMHvj (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:51:39 -0400 Message-ID: <46C00D86.4090403@dgreaves.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:51:34 +0100 From: David Greaves User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070618) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Clements Cc: Jan Engelhardt , david@lang.hm, Al Boldi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid]) References: <200708121335.17267.a1426z@gawab.com> <20070812174549.GA2915@teal.hq.k1024.org> <46BFB6BB.80406@steeleye.com> In-Reply-To: <46BFB6BB.80406@steeleye.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 612 Lines: 17 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/