On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:33:15PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > > (NTP still locks the box.) > > You need a recent kernel. I've got a recent kernel. Linux tortoise 2.2.19 #1 Tue Jul 10 21:47:25 BST 2001 m68k unknown > NTP doesn't work on 2.2.10. I'm running a 2.2.19 I got somewhere, > which does not have this issue. As far as I can tell, it does. > > The kernel wouldn't finish with the > > nbd device for literally days after file operations had stopped, and > > there is no documentation about how to merge the "diffs" that are > > created back into the filesystem image. > > diffs? > > You're using the "copy-on-write" feature, are you? (-c to the server) Yes, I was. > What you should've done instead is "nbd-server <any port> <the file>" > > and on the client > > nbd-client <server's hostname> <port> </dev entry> > > These diffs are only interesting for setups with diskless boxen that swap > over the network. NBD was created to support this, but you need a special > kernel patch to prevent deadlocks to be able to do this safely. Ah. Okay, I may perform another experiment with NBD soon. BTW, I think some of your mail should go into the nbd documentation! -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." Debian GNU/Linux | The original Latin seems to have branden@debian.org | been garbled. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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