On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Roland McGrath wrote: > I took a quick look at nbd and it's so simple that I just implemented the > client side for the Hurd. That is, I've added an "nbd" store type to libstore. > So to use it do e.g.: > > settrans /dev/nb0 /hurd/storeio -Tnbd hostname:1234 > > to connect to TCP port 1234 on "hostname". That gives the store a > blocksize of 1, since the server protocol doesn't impose any. > You can set the block size of the store in the name, e.g.: > > settrans /dev/nb0 /hurd/storeio -Tnbd hostname:1234/1024 > > does the same as the above, but the resulting device will have a block size > of 1024 (the default for Linux nbd devices). > > As usual, I've compiled this but not tested it at all. I'm sure there are > some stupid bugs. Hurd folks, please give this a try if you feel like it > (you can point it at nbd-server on your Linux machine).
Looks great; however, I do have a couple questions: - Where can I find the code? ;-) - Pavel Machek, the author of NBD under Linux has put special effort in making his code deadlock-free in case the block device is used as swapspace device (a deadlock could arise if nbd-client needs more memory to handle the reads necessary to handle a page fault...). Did you think about this situation, or should I consider your port as "not deadlock safe"? -- wouter dot verhelst at advalvas dot be "Human knowledge belongs to the world" -- From the movie "Antitrust" rm -rf /bin/laden _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
