On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 08:17:02PM +0100, Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz) wrote:

quoted

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?

Kind of... In this regard any network device which transfers IO and
related requests over the network is a nbd on steroids.

...reminds me, nbd-server should really fsync data before returning success...

There are lots of issues NBD could have at first... When I compared DST
with AoE and NFS, Debian Lenny/Etch's nbd server crashed on startup, so
I was not able to run my tests against it.

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	Evgeniy Polyakov