Helmut Lichtenberg wrote:
> David Burgess schrieb am 04. Dec 2008 um 01:13:46 CET:
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Steve Cayford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> In short clients are not booted off. They continue to use the old image
>>> until the client gets rebooted.
>> Thus has been my experience.
> 
> This is also my experience, but does it mean, the client stores the whole
> image in memory? Why does it keep an nbd-connection then?
> 
> Or is it in server memory? When my clients have several weeks of uptime and I
> generate lots of updated images, will all image generations fill the server 
> ram?

My understanding is that although the original image file is deleted, the 
space on disk is not released until the nbd-server process closes the file 
handle. So the image is on disk on the server, not in RAM.

-Steve


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