On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> wrote: ... >> >> Now, you and Paul mantain nbd. But i am not sure if you maintain the >> user space including nbd-server.c and nbd-client.c, etc. And Paul maintains >> nbd in Linux kernel space including drivers/block/nbd.c and >> include/linux/nbd.h. >> You and Paul are mainly in charge of which parts. Cloud you please tell me >> clearly. Thanks very much. > > As you say, Paul maintains the kernel bits, and I maintain the userspace > bits. > > In case you're interested, here's a short overview of things that I > pulled out of the commit logs: > - 2003-07-13: last commit by Pavel Machek to the userspace code > - 2003-10-27: release of nbd v2.6 (userspace parts), containing mainly > some compile fixes and bugfixes since the handover from Pavel > - Early 2004: release of nbd v2.7 > - 2004-06-27: started using the GLib utilities library to add support > for things like hashtables, dynamic arrays, etc, without having to > write it myself > - 2005-10-27: release of nbd v2.8, which saw a fairly major rewrite of > the internals to nbd-server (stopped using global variables to store > state, etc) > - 2006-11-01: release of nbd v2.9, which featured a configuration file > and a test suite > At that point, development slowed down somewhat, with still the > occasional bugfix release and new feature here and there. What stands > out from the period since then is this: > - 2010-08-09: release of nbd v2.9.18, the first version that supports > named exports
So thanks for you and Paul's jobs. And i will join us to develop nbd. I love this one ;-) -- Thanks Harry Wei ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
