Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:17:02 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | 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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