Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:17:59 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> Cc: geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux NBD protocol support in ggatec? Message-ID: <20160712051759.GB1218@brick> In-Reply-To: <786674de-95da-3010-4412-59da26d8207b@FreeBSD.org> References: <786674de-95da-3010-4412-59da26d8207b@FreeBSD.org>
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On 0711T1544, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > Is here any work to support Linux NBD in ggatec? > > Here is interesting hosting provider www.scaleway.com, which provide > very cheap bare-metal servers (and ARM/64 ones, too, which is, IMHO, > very interesting!), but all storage is attached via NBD, so FreeBSD is > not supported. > > It could be interesting to have NBD client in FreeBSD (we have server > in ports). Or perhaps someone could ask them why are they using what seems to be an obsolete proprietary protocol instead of something modern. Maybe it's just a workaround for some trivial Linux-specific problem, and they could provide an alternative for other systems?
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