Re: OT:fault tolerant nfs HOW?

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:00:05 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:41:30 +0100, David Woodhouse
<David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com> said:

> Impressive. How does the current nbd compare with the scheme outlined
> in §6.5 of the "latest GFS paper" - "SCSI over IP"? Does/will it
> support the Dlock command, or will GFS use something different?

GFS can already pass dlock commands over the network, but that is still
tied to the scsi layers to some extent. Eventually I expect that that
is going to be abstracted out to a higher level, at which point GFS over
NBD should be quite possible.

--Stephen

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