Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:55:39 -0600 From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com> To: phk@freebsd.org Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network block device. Message-ID: <20030129235539.GZ16038@geekpunk.net> In-Reply-To: <16443.1043882006@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20030129180043.S8642@sasami.jurai.net> <16443.1043882006@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:13:26AM +0100, phk@freebsd.org wrote: > > NBD wouldn't be hard to implement on FreeBSD, the easiest way would > be to write two GEOM modules to do it: a client and a server. > > No, I don't have time to do that right now, but I will happily > guide anybody who wants to try. This would be extremely useful, if there is someone out there with enough Copious Free Time<tm> to tackle it. With UFS2 now in the tree it is possible to create filesystems much larger than anyone is likely to connect to a single physical machine. The ability to build storage clusters using FreeBSD would be quite cool. Brandon D. Valentine -- brandon@dvalentine.com http://www.geekpunk.net "We've been raised on replicas of fake and winding roads, and day after day up on this beautiful stage we've been playing tambourine for minimum wage, but we are real; I know we are real." -- David Berman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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