Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:18:00 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | 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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/
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