>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew N Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matthew> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, David Gilbert wrote: >> As I understand, NBD is just a little driver that lets you mount >> foo:/dev/ad0s1g over the network and proxies the block transactions >> across. Matthew> Right, you still have to stripe/mirror on the client side Matthew> though. I don't think it will be all that bad. Matthew> Any chance of you testing Linux NBD and FreeBSD Matthew> NFS/vnconfig/CCD? it doesn't work that way. the result of NBD is a /dev/nbd0 not a filesystem. Block 0 of /dev/nbd0 is block 0 of /dev/hda1 (say). nbd runs as a server on the node with the disk and as a client on the node using the disk. Yes, you still stripe on the client side... but you stripe across directly mapped block devices (no NFS involved). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
