iSCSI vs. NBD (was Re: ata over ethernet question)

From: Guennadi Liakhovetski
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 16:10:15 EST


On Thu, 12 May 2005, James Bottomley wrote:

> However, there is room for improvement in nbd, notably the handling of
> packet commands, which looks to be eminently doable in the current
> infrastructure (this would basically make nbd a replicator for the linux
> block system, and would probably necessitate some client side changes to
> achieve). If you have any thoughts in this direction, you could drop an
> email to the maintainer.

Thanks, James

I'll try to get some (thoughts):-) BTW, who is the maintainer of nbd? No
one in MAINTAINERS, in nbd.c only
* Copyright 1997-2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
* Parts copyright 2001 Steven Whitehouse <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Is it Pavel then?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski

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