Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:18:00 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
       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
Subject: NBD was Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14
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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
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