Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:17:02 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       dst@ioremap.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/7] Distributed storage release.
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On Fri 2008-12-26 14:56:09, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> This is a maintenance distributed storage release, which includes a
> rebase against the 2.6.28 kernel tree only.
> 
> DST is a network block device storage, which can be used to organize
> exported storages on the remote nodes into the local block device.
> 
> Its main goal of the project is to allow creation of the block devices
> on top of different network media and connect physically distributed devices
> into single storage using existing network infrastructure and not
> introducing new limitations into the protocol and network usage model.

So it is basically nbd on steroids?

...reminds me, nbd-server should really fsync data before returning success...
									Pavel

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