Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14

2007-11-18 Thread Robin Humble
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:56:53PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 08:16 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Thoughts: >> 1) I absolutely agree that NFS is far more prominent and useful than any >> network block device, at the present time. >> >> 2) Nonetheless, swap over NFS is a

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

2007-09-15 Thread Robin Humble
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:35:16AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Robin Humble wrote: >>On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>>I've been waiting for years for a smart person to come along and write a >>>POSIX-only distributed filesystem. &g

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

2007-09-15 Thread Robin Humble
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >It is my hope that you will put your skills towards a distributed >filesystem :) Of the current solutions, GFS (currently in kernel) >scales poorly, and NFS v4.1 is amazingly bloated and overly complex. > >I've been waiting for years

Re: [E1000-devel] 1000xf bus problem

2007-03-18 Thread Robin Humble
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:31:51AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:20:09PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >lspci -v shows the message below, and I am moving files between systems, >> >{from RAMdisk to RAMdisk} on idle machines. >> >The transfer r