Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:17:21 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | 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 -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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