On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:38PM +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Ray Burkholder wrote: > > >>as of today GNBD has been removed from cluster.git master > >>branch and made into a standalone, community driven, project > >>and it will not be part of cluster-2.99.xx (and higher) releases. > >> > >>The main reason for splitting, and somehow sign the > >>end-of-life of GNBD is that there are many, more powerful and > >>recognized standard technologies out there that should be > >>used in place of GNBD. > >> > > > >Would you be able to provide some information on what you forsee to be the > >'more powerful and recognized standard technologies'? > > iSCSI, AOE and probably others that are recognized by hw vendors as > standard protocol for their products. I'd just add that if there's still a niche for gnbd for some reason, then the best path forward is to enhance nbd in the upstream kernel as a replacement. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
