Re: [RFC][PATCH] nbd driver for 2.5.72

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

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On 2003-06-21T08:36:07,
   Bernd Eckenfels <[e-mail]> said:

> Is anybody aware of a journalling nbd, which keeps track of unsynced
> changes, so a fast reintegration is possible?

drbd does that, port to 2.5 is in progress.

> Well perhaps this is a property of the md device, instead... hmm. Is there
> such a function available? Could be some left over from snapshot code.

Peter T. Breuer has also been working on intent logging for md, which
will also achieve largely the same thing, just with slightly different
properties. I'm not fully aware on the current status of this
implementation.

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e <[e-mail]>

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