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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:36:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
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Subject: Re: Network block device.
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, David Gilbert wrote:
> As I understand, NBD is just a little driver that lets you mount
> foo:/dev/ad0s1g over the network and proxies the block transactions
> across.

Right, you still have to stripe/mirror on the client side though.  I don't
think it will be all that bad.

Any chance of you testing Linux NBD and FreeBSD NFS/vnconfig/CCD?

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