On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 15:32 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Jin-Shan Tseng<tsengjs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@xxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > >> > >> gnbd has not been ported to any kernel > 2.6.27 because it's been > >> deprecated upstream. > >> > >> Fabio > > > > Hi Fabio, > > Thanks for your reply. :) > > I'll use nbd instead. > > This is interesting. > What is the currently recommended method to use for exporting > block-device via TCP/IP? nbd? iscsi? use whatever works? > There was a short thread discussing this same issue in November when we announced GNDB deprecation: http://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2008-November/msg00062.html in short, iscsi/aoe/nbd and others are recognized as defacto standard protocols and supported by different vendors. It makes no sense to carry around yet another network block device protocol/implementation that is not even standard. A lot of people had great deal of success using iSCSI. I personally used AOE for testing for a long time with very little issues. Fabio -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
