On 10/31/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 08:50 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:37:53PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > Don't be misled. Swapping over NFS is just a scarecrow for the > > > seemingly real impetus behind these changes which is network storage > > > stuff like iSCSI. > > > > So can we please do swap over network storage only first? All these > > VM bits look conceptually sane to me, while the changes to the swap > > code to support nfs are real crackpipe material. > > Yeah, I know how you stand on that. I just wanted to post all this > before going off into the woods reworking it all. ... > > So please get the VM bits for swap over network blockdevices in first, > > Trouble with that part is that we don't have any sane network block > devices atm, NBD is utter crap, and iSCSI is too complex to be called > sane. > > Maybe Evgeniy's Distributed storage thingy would work, will have a look > at that.
Andrew recently asked Evgeniy if his DST was ready for merging; to which Evgeniy basically said yes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/27/54 It would be great if DST could be merged; whereby addressing the fact that NBD is lacking for net-vm. If DST were scrutinized in the context of net-vm it should help it get the review that is needed for merging. Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
