roland wrote:
We've considered looking at porting the AOE _server_ module to Solaris,
especially since the Solaris loopback driver (/dev/lofi) is _much_ more
stable than the loopback module in Linux (the Linux loopback module is a
stellar piece of crap).
ok, it`s quite old and probably not the most elegant solution - but unstable?
could you underline that somehow?
i use the loopback module for years and never had a problem.
anyway - it`s getting a competitor: bugfixed version of dm-loop device-mapper
target has just been posted on dm-devel today.
roland
Thanks for the note about the device mapper loopback thing. I've banged
on the standard loopback module, and it is indeed only really suitable
for casual use in Linux. It has really horrid performance when you try
to do something like mount a large file and use that as a filesystem (as
in under Xen for guests), and actually frequently has either just
crapped out or caused data corruption when used under significant load.
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