netdev - Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid])

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

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

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html