>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew N Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matthew> So use vinum, CCD or add the files as swap and make a Matthew> swap-backed filesystem. Matthew> No reason to invent a totally new low level filesystem here. Actually, I can see that working ... but it's going to be a whole lot less efficient than NBD. You're doing block io that gets replicated (say ... raid 1) by vinum and then then turned back into a block transaction by md and then into a network transaction through nfs back to a filesystem transaction on the remote machine (remember md is working on the file) which is then blocked by the remote filesystem. Did I miss anything? 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. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
