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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:14:58 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> To: Paul Clements <paul.clements@...sios.com> Cc: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@...il.com>, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "nbd-general@...ts.sourceforge.net" <nbd-general@...ts.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: NBD Maintainer On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 02:26:01PM -0500, Paul Clements wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andrey Utkin > <andrey.krieger.utkin@...il.com> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > could you please describe > > > - how wide is NBD usage today (any estimation is ok), > > It depends somewhat on who you consider to be users. There are two > groups of NBD "users": > > 1) integrators and admins (who work directly with nbd) > 2) users of the systems and software that the first group creates Hi Paul, studied the driver code. looks like the driver is simple and the main work is being done by the nbd-client and nbd-server. i was thinking of putting in my name for consideration, but being a newbie in lkml (have worked with drivers and server-client codes in my dayjob) and seeing the vast user base i am not sure anymore. But will like to try if you are there for guidance. sudip > > My guess is that the first group is in the hundreds. The second in the > thousands. NBD usage tends to fall into one the following classes: > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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