On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 04:53:01PM +0100, folkert wrote: > An other enhancement could be: > - compression (when cpu is faster than network connection)
That would be improper layering, IMO. You can already do compression by using a compressed filesystem or some device-mapper thing. > - not sending 0x00 pages but some flag in the responsheader indicating > an all 0x00 page I do intend to write the changes that would be required for what triggered this thread in such a way that it would (configurably) also work even if the server isn't running off a filesystem that supports sparse files (so that it would just write out 0x00 pages instead, rather than deallocating them). Or did you mean something else? -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
