On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 12:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

Hi!

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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.]

Yeah, sorry, perhaps I was overly strong.

It doesn't work for me, because:

  - it does connection management in user-space, which makes it
    impossible to reconnect. I'd want a full kernel based client.

  - it had some plugging issues, and after talking to Jens about it
    he suggested a rewrite using ->make_request() ala AoE. [ sorry if
    I'm short on details here, it was a long time ago, and I
    forgot, maybe Jens remembers ]

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.

Ah, right, I keep forgetting about that one. The only draw-back to that
on is, is that its raw ethernet, and not some IP protocol.