Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

2007-08-13 Thread David Greaves
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would this just be relevant to network devices or would it improve support for jostled usb and sata hot-plugging I wonder? good question, I suspect that some of the error handling would be similar (for devices that are unreachable not haning the system for example), b

Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

2007-08-13 Thread David Greaves
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: per the message below MD (or DM) would need to be modified to work reasonably well with one of the disk components being over an unreliable link (like a network link) are the MD/DM maintainers interested in extending their code in this direction? or would they prefer

Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

2007-08-13 Thread David Greaves
Paul Clements wrote: Well, if people would like to see a timeout option, I actually coded up a patch a couple of years ago to do just that, but I never got it into mainline because you can do almost as well by doing a check at user-level (I basically ping the nbd connection periodically and if

2.6.22-rc4 hibernate disables skge wol

2007-06-15 Thread David Greaves
I've started a new thread here since the old one got somewhat hijacked. Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, 1 June 2007 23:23, David Greaves wrote: >> Not a regression though, it does it in 2.6.21 >> >> If I cause the system to save state to disk then whilst off it