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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:33:06 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: eNBD on loopback [was Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36]
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Hi!

> Btw, while I'm at it - who out there actually uses the new "enbd"
> (Enhanced NBD)? I have this feeling that that would be the better choice,
> since unlike plain nbd it should be deadlock-free on localhost (ie you
> don't need a remote machine).

How does eNBD manage to do that? It was pretty hard last time I
checked...

What if their enbd server is swapped out, and all memory is in dirty
pages waiting for writeback to eNBD?
									Pavel
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