NBD was Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > 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.]

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.
								Pavel
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