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Message-ID: <46C00D86.4090403@dgreaves.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:51:34 +0100
From: David Greaves <david@...eaves.com>
To: Paul Clements <paul.clements@...eleye.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>, david@...g.hm,
Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways?
[compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])
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 it
> fails, I kill -9 the nbd-client).
Yes please.
David
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