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Message-ID: <20190215191953.GB17897@amd>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:19:54 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: rjones@...hat.com, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: nbd, nbdkit, loopback mounts and memory management
Hi!
I watched fosdem talk about
nbdkit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5A608xJG0 . Nice. But word
of warning: I'm not sure using it read-write on localhost is safe.
In particular, user application could create a lot of dirty data
quickly. If there's not enough memory for nbdkit (or nbd-client or
nbd-server), you might get a deadlock.
Also note that nbd.txt in Documentation/blockdev/ points to
sourceforge; it should probably point to
https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd ?
Best regards,
Pavel
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