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Message-ID: <s70vhy.ni5p0b.2zdyk6-qmf@mail.kapsi.fi>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:33:43 +0000
From:	Tuomas Räsänen <tuomasjjrasanen@...r.fi>
To:	paul.clements@...sios.com
Cc:	nbd-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	andrey.krieger.utkin@...il.com
Subject: Re: [Nbd] NBD Maintainer

Hi

On Tue Jan 13 21:26:01 2015 GMT+0200, 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
> 
> 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:
>

We (Opinsys) alone have approx. 45k end-users (teachers and students). So at least the second group is a lot bigger.

-- 
Tuomas
 

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