Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways?[compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

From: David Greaves
Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 08:57:19 EST


Paul Clements wrote:
Well, if people would like to see a timeout option, I actually coded up a patch a couple of years ago to do just that, but I never got it into mainline because you can do almost as well by doing a check at user-level (I basically ping the nbd connection periodically and if it fails, I kill -9 the nbd-client).


Yes please.

David

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