On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> wrote: > We did have a vague discussion once about having something like a > /dev/nbdmaster which would be used for a "give me an nbd device" type call. > This would also mean that /dev/nbdX would not exist until the "give me an > nbd device" call had been made. > > I still think that would be a good idea, but AFAIK it never got implemented. > Paul, what's your opinion on that?
Sounds reasonable to me. Although I wonder how bad the current situation really is. Are people having difficulties with races and such in trying to allocate nbds? Or is it more that it's not clear how to go about doing it, and people want a cleaner interface? -- Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
