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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:17:21 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: eNBD on loopback [was Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36]
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Hi!

> > >Don't ask me, I'm not a user, I have just seen the patch submissions, and
> > >I just want to get real user feedback before I'd merge a new "extended
> > >nbd".
> >
> >I haven't used enbd, because the site was down the weekend I was evaluating
> >the alternatives...  I did try NBD and DRBD, however.  My experience was
> >that enbd could hardly be worse than nbd, for the following reasons:
> >
> >    The nbd server software referenced in the Configuration documentation
> >    (the only I was able to find, and that only after some digging), would
> >    fail rather quickly because the remote kernel would send a request much
> >    larger than the server was expecting.
> 
> Indeed. The source code reference in th Configuration documentation is very 
> much out of data and completely broken for anything that requires 64 bit 
> sizes on a 32 bit architecture.

Can you submit patch to fix that docs? It should point to sourceforge..

> This is all fixed now (I know because I shared your frustration and went 
> and fixed it myself (-:), if you want to get a properly working version 
> which exhibits no problems under very intensive i/o on a 15GiB partition 
> over a 100MBit lan just go to http://sf.net/projects/nbd/ and get the 
> latest version from CVS or download the new 2.0 release tarball.
								Pavel
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